Superambient

"They are both bottom dwellers of necessity, although they take occasional excursions into the superambient water, but quickly fall back, from the force of gravity, to the bottom. These excursions into the superambient liquid are effected by the motion of the caudal fin from side to side."

"But though thus secluded almost from the cheering radiance of the sun, and bound as a felon in the mystic fetters of enchantment, the untiring vessel, yielding to the auspicious influence of the atmosphere, progressed in dashing style over the restless billows of the main. Mo mysterious incantation impeded her onward velocity; no spell wrapt the senses of the vigilant mariners; no flood of preternatural light rushed with dazzling glare on their humid vision; no burst of thunder rent the superambient elements, and poured its deafening roar on their listening ears; and no terrific whirlwind howled in the bending cordage or deranged the inflated canvas."