Farther on, the bottom was tinted with fine shades of ultramarine; then, off in the distance, it turned blue and faded in the midst of a hazy darkness.
In Egypt, it was used in jewelry and ornaments, and it was also ground into powder for use as a pigment called ultramarine in paintings during the Renaissance.
Their waters are keen ultramarine blue in the deepest parts, lively grass-green toward the shore shallows and around the edges of the small bergs usually floating about in them.