 | 1818 - 514 páginas
...feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour ; come resemble snails, and some a^e not unlike lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 730 páginas
...longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till itb top has gained the level of the highest tides, above...has no power to advance, and the reef of course no langer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 620 páginas
...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...which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, 440 NOTES. CANTO II. of course, no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts. in succession, reach... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1826 - 392 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1827 - 198 páginas
...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 hard stone ; but if any part of...of the highest tides, above which the worm has no vii power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1827 - 360 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to cany its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 páginas
...worm is no longer exposed lo the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in ihe form of a caulitluwcr, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power tu advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parte in succession... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 páginas
...longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends upwards." 29. CORAL... | |
 | David Page - 1844 - 232 páginas
...no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form a cauliflower till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends upwards." 302. The composition... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 páginas
...the worm is no longer washed by the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef, of course, no longer extends upwards." have each... | |
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Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. 
