 The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and...  La Belle Assemblée - Pagina 581818Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pagine
...the Alceste. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance* and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | 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 - 1818 - 574 pagine
...inches long. ' The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pagine
...inches long. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pagine
...inches long.* The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | 1818 - 514 pagine
...inches long. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...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,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 pagine
...appears to cense when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises itt the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pagine
...cease when the 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...and the reef, of course, no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession, reach the surface, and there btop ; forming, in time, a, level... | |
 | 1818 - 512 pagine
...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, till its top has gained the...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, Forming in time a level... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 pagine
...inches long. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | 1821 - 726 pagine
...inches long. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level field,... | |
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