 The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...  La Belle Assemblée - Էջ 581818Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 էջ
...following is extracted from Captain Basil Hall's narrative of his voyage to the Loo Choo Islands : — " The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1841 - 400 էջ
...reefs, extracted from Captain Basil Hall's Voyage to the Island of Loo Choo, in the Chinese Sea. " The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | 1843 - 450 էջ
...does not require to be changed oftener than once a week. TEMPERANCE, SCIENCE, AND LITERATI'HE. CORAL. The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one title, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 էջ
...The examination of a coral reef (he observes) during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting : when the tide has left it for some time,...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 էջ
...observes that, during the different stages of the tide, the changes it undergoes are truly surprising. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | 1847 - 828 էջ
...however, if God rmit, shall be again treated of and explained. Return we now to ir subject. CORAL REEFS. THE examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one de is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some me, it becomes dry, and appears... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 էջ
..." The examination of a coral-reef (or rock) during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting : when the tide has left it for some time...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged; but, as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral-worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 էջ
...around Loo Choo, where the zoophytes belonging to the genera Astrea are most common, who remarks : " The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 էջ
...recorded some pleasing observations on this singular formation, in his voyage to Loo-Choo. He says, " The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1850 - 344 էջ
...reefs during the different stages of one tide, and gives the following description as the result: —' When the tide has left it for some time, it be-"comes...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
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