And if Britannia interferes.
That Great Britain, not content with domineering on the surface, contemplates the colonizing of the depths of the ocean, is evident from the following lines, by Dr Darwin:
“Then shall Britannia rule the wealthy realms,
Which ocean’s wide insatiate wave o’erwhelms;
Confine in netted bowers his scaly flocks,
Part his blue plains, and people all his rocks.
Deep in warm waves, beneath the line that roll,
Beneath the shadowy ice-isles of the pole,
Onward, through bright meandering vales afar,