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.
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.
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.