 The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and...  The Edinburgh annual register - Página 3151821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance* and the reef...however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 páginas
...rises itt the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. Dut this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | 1818 - 512 páginas
...rises in tjie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...however, continually increases ; and being prevented from "going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...stop, forming in time a level field with steep sides ajl round. The reef, however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends... | |
 | 1818 - 590 páginas
...rises in tlie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest 'tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef,...no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession, reach the surface, and there btop ; forming, in time, a, level field, with steep sides... | |
 | 1818 - 428 páginas
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the level of the highest tides, above •which ; the worm has no power to advance, and ! the reef, of course, no longer extends itself i upwards." — Lord Amhenft Embatsy tt China. WOMEN. DIDEROT says, that " when •writing on women,... | |
 | 1818 - 514 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power ,to advance, and the reef of course no long£r .extends itself upwards. The other parts, in successiqn, reach the surface, and there stop,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 páginas
...reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef...however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
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