 The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 314editat per - 1818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 pàgines
...reefs, extracted from Captain Basil Hall's " Voyage to the Island of Loo Choo, in the Chinese Sea." " The examination of a coral reef during the different...tide rises, 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... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pàgines
...an effect of "tremely fantastic character. The examination of a coral reef, says Captain Basil Hall, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pàgines
...fantastic character. THE WORKMEN OF THE SEA. The examination of a coral reef, says Captain Basil Hall, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pàgines
...effect of extremely fantastic character. The examination of a coral reef, says Captain Basil Hall, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and... | |
 | John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland - 1893 - 430 pàgines
...himself and to his God. 130. Every life is planned by God. Vers. 5, 7. When the sea has left a coral reef for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but no sooner does the tide rise again, and the waves begin to wash over it, than millions... | |
 | 1818 - 694 pàgines
...an insect. " The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time...exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the wave* begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible.... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pàgines
...recorded some pleasing observations on this singular formation, in hU voyage to LooChoo. He says— 'The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, U particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time, it becomes dry. and appears to... | |
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