The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be discerned at the depth of twenty-five or thirty feet.
Bonaparte in particular discerned the advantages which peace would bring in the consolidation of his position.
Soon, it was close enough to be accurately discerned.
Perhaps an indication of it may be discerned as early as the 4th century in a custom, current in Spain, northern Italy and elsewhere, of washing the feet of the catechumens towards the end of Lent before their baptism.
And since this rule has been found to hold good for all the archegoniate series and also for the flowering plants where, however, the gametophyte generation has become so extremely reduced as to be only with difficulty discerned, it is natural that when alternation of generation is stated to occur in any group of Thallophyta it should be required that the cytological evidence should support the view.
