 | 1814 - 644 pągines
...instinctive foresight it seems to be owing, that the windward side of the reef exposed to the opet) sea, is generally, if not always, the highest part,...almost perpendicular, sometimes from the depth of Itco hundred (and perhaps many more) fathoms. To be constantly covered with water seems necessary to... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pągines
...sent forth ; and to this their instinctive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea is, generally, if...existence of the animalcules, for they do not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral and other broken remnants thrown up by... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pągines
...safely sent forth, and to this their instinctive foresight it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea, is generally, if...almost perpendicular, sometimes from the depth of 200, and perhaps many more fathoms. To be constantly covered with water, seems necessary to the existence... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pągines
...generally, if not always, the highest part, and rises almost perpendicular, sometimes from the depth of 200, and perhaps many more fathoms. To be constantly covered...existence of the animalcules, for they do not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pągines
...sent forth : and to this, their instinctive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea, is generally, if not always the higtest part, and rises almost perpendicular, sometimes from the depth of 2OO, and perhaps many more... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pągines
...sent forth ; and to this, their instinctive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea is generally, if...always, the highest part, and rises almost perpendicular from the depth of many fathoms. To be constantly covered with water seems necessary to the existence... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 pągines
...forth; and to this, their instinctive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a coral reef, exposed to the open sea, is generally, if not always, the highest part, rising almost perpendicularly, sometimes from the depth of two hundred, and perhaps many more, fathoms.... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 pągines
...; and to this, their instinctive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a coral reef, exposed to the open sea, is generally, if not always, the highest part, rising almost perpendicularly, sometimes from the depth of two hundred, and perhaps many more, fathoms.... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pągines
...sent forth ; and to this, their instructive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open sea, is generally, if...of the animalcules ; for they do not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral sand, and other remnants thrown up by... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pągines
...instructive foresight, it seems to be owing, that the windward side of a reef exposed to the open seaj is generally, if not always, the highest part, and...of the animalcules ; for they do not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral sand, and other remnants thrown up by... | |
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Their wall of coral, for the most part in situations where the winds are constant, being arrived at the surface, affords a shelter, to leeward of which their infant colonies may be safely sent forth ; and to this their instinctive foresight it seems to... 
