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 124por Basil Hall - 1820 - 259 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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