| 1814 - 644 str.
...or the drupe- of a ininiliinuf, is thrown on shore ; land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees; every high tide, and still more,...island is gradually assumed ; and last of all comes m:m to take possession. Such are the operations of Nature, by means the most feeble," but by numbers... | |
| 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 str.
...cocoa nut, or the drupe of a pandanus is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and still more...all comes man to take possession. ' Half-w.ay island (in Torres strait) is well advanced in the above progressive state; having been many years, probably... | |
| 1814 - 506 str.
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| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 str.
...and a soi D be formed ; a cocoa nut is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and still more...— and last of all comes man to take possession. 11 advanced in the above progressive state ; having been many years, probably some ages, above j>ring-tides,... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 str.
...the form of an island is gradually assumed — and last of all comes man to take possession. " This island is well advanced in the above progressive state...probably some ages, above the reach of the highest spring-tides, or the wash of the surf in the heaviest gales. I distinguished, however, in the rock... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - 1822 - 508 str.
...of a pandanus, is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees 4 every high tide, and still more every gale, adds something...of an island is gradually assumed ; and last of all conies man to take possession. the reach of the highest spring tides, or the wash of the surf in the... | |
| 1824 - 1008 str.
...land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide and gale of wind add something to the bank ; the form of an Island is gradually...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. If we should imagine one of these immense coral reefs to be lifted up by a submarine volcano, and converted... | |
| George Miller - 1826 - 864 str.
...shore ; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and ttill more, every gale, adds something to the bank ; the...; and last of all, comes MAN, to take possession." * The words of Mr Chamisso an; : " Their situation with respect to each other, as they often form rows,... | |
| 1826 - 488 str.
...land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide and gale of wind add something to the bank; the form of an island is gradually...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. If we should imagine one of these immense coral reefs to be lifted up by a sub-marine volcano, and... | |
| 1829 - 322 str.
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