...be seen in every stage of their progress ; some exhibiting little more than the point or summit of a coral-line pyramid, at a depth scarcely discernible...transparent waters; others spreading like submarine gardens beneath the surface ; while a third class ascend, like long curved banks of sand, broken coral, or...

...every stage of their progress ; some exhibiting little more than the point or summit of a coral-lime pyramid, at a depth scarcely discernible through the...transparent waters ; others spreading like submarine gardens beneath the * In Captain Beechey's Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific' and •ehring's Straits, vol.i.,...

...successive platforms or terraces. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit...which the rolling wave occasionally breaks ; " while others exist in the more advanced state that I have just described, the main bank sufficiently elevated...

...every stage of their progress ; some exhibiting little niore than the point or summit of a coral- line pyramid, at a depth scarcely discernible through the...transparent waters ; others spreading like submarine gardens beneath the surface ; while a third class ascend, like long curved banks of sand, broken coral, or...

...of coral, of varied and beautiful form and colour, extend, in the form of successive terraces below water, to a considerable distance around. " Here islands...like long curved or circular banks of sand, broken .eoral, and shells, two or three feet above the water, clothed with grass, or adorned with cocoa-nut...

...successive platforms or terraces. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit...which the rolling wave occasionally breaks ; " while others exist in the more advanced state that I have just described, the main bank sufficiently elevated...

...successive platforms or terraces. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit...which the rolling wave occasionally breaks ; " while others exist in the more advanced state that I have just described, the main bank sufficiently elevated...

...successive platforms or terraces. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : " some presenting little more than a point or summit of a branching coralline pyjagjid, at a depth .scarcely discernible through the transparent waters ; others spreading, like...

...platforms or terraces. 9. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation, " some presenting little more than a point or summit...which the rolling wave occasionally breaks ;" while others exist in the more, advanced state I have just described, the main bank sufficiently elevated...

...successive platforms or terraces. In these regions may be seen islands in every stage of their formation : ' some presenting little more than a point or summit...which the rolling wave occasionally breaks ; ' while others exist in the more advanced state that I have just described, the main bank sufficiently elevated...