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" When the coral is broken, about high-water, it is a solid, hard stone ; but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide reaches every day, it is found to be full of worms of different lengths and colours ; some being as fine as a thread, and... "
Voyage to Corea, and the Island of Loo-Choo - Página 124
por Basil Hall - 1820 - 259 páginas
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The Eclectic Review, Volumen9;Volumen27

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 páginas
...are generally of a dark colour, ^d from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the 1 is broken about high water mark, it is a solid hard...two inches long. ' The growth of coral appears to cense when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises itt the form...
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Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great ...

Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 páginas
...are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid...in shape, but soft, and not above two inches long *. * A large collection, which was at this time made of these Zoophites, was unfortunately lost in...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen29

1818 - 590 páginas
...lengths and colours, some being as fine as a thread, and several feet long ; others ixsembling snails, and not above two inches long. ' The growth of coral...worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Accordingly, a reef rises in tlie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest...
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Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy ..., Volumen11

1818 - 512 páginas
...bright yellow, and sometimes 6f¥t: some resemble snails, and some are not unlike lobsters in shape, tut soft, and not above two inches long. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is''ritf longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in tjie form of a cauliflower,...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volumen18

1818 - 428 páginas
...as fine as 1 a thread, and several feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour.— The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the wash* ing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volumen10

1821 - 720 páginas
...thread, and several feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour. Others resemble snaih, and some are not unlike lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above two inches fong. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the...
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The Lusiad: An Epic Poem

Luís de Camões - 1826 - 622 páginas
...properties of life. In Captain Basil Hall's very interesting account of his voyage to Loo-Choo, he says, " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Accordingly, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest...
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Extracts from a Journal: Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and ..., Volumen1

Basil Hall - 1827 - 360 páginas
...sometimes of a blue colour ; while others resembled snails, and some were not unlike lobsters or prawns in shape, but soft, and not above two inches long. The growth of coral ceases when the worm which creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 páginas
...feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue color ; others resemble snails, and some ore not unlike lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above...long. "The growth of coral appears to cease when the и i -mi i* no longer exposed to tho washing of the sea Thu» a reef rises in the forni of a cauliflower,...
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Voyage to Loo-Choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas in the Year 1816 ...

Basil Hall - 1832 - 350 páginas
...sometimes of a blue colour ; while others resembled snails, and some were not unlike lobsters or prawns in shape, but soft, and not above two inches long. The growth of coral ceases when the worm which creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef...
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