 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
 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 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 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... | |
 | Fanny Osborne - 1852 - 394 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 էջ
...Captain Basil Hall, in his "Voyage to Loo-Choo," makes the following observations on coral islands: "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... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1856 - 280 էջ
...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...be a compact rock exceedingly hard and ragged ; but no sooner does the tide rise again, and the waves begin to wash over it, than millions of coral worms... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1856 - 274 էջ
...Captain Basil Hall, in his " Voyage to Loo-Choo," makes the following observations on coral islands : " 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... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1856 - 276 էջ
...Captain Basil Hall, in his " Voyage to Loo-Choo," makes the following observations on coral islands : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 414 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... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 էջ
...the way in which these formations take place, and of the method in which the coral insect works. " 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 hecomes dry, and appears to he... | |
 | 1868 - 104 էջ
...a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide," says Captain Bazil Hall, " is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time,...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but when the tide rises and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
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