... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of... Outlines of Physical Geography - Página 8por George William Fitch - 1867 - 112 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Montgomery - 1841 - 400 páginas
...and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved... | |
| 1843 - 450 páginas
...and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which arc moved... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 páginas
...and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...short time, the whole surface of the rock appears lo be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six... | |
| David Page - 1844 - 232 páginas
...rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the polypi protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 páginas
...and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form, of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 páginas
...themselves from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and size, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time,...surface of the rock appears 'to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the shape of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which move... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 páginas
...which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes ; and in such numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 páginas
...begin to wash over it, the polypi protrude themselves from holes, which were before invisible. The animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes,...surface of the rock appears to be alive, and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 páginas
...around Loo Choo, where the zoophytes belonging to the genera Astrea are most common, who remarks : " The examination of a coral reef, during the different...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo Choo was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 páginas
...and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral-worms protrude themselves from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of...surface of the rock appears to be alive, and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved... | |
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