 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 - Strana 581818Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1839 - 428 str.
...a solid hard 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 str.
...inches long. " The growth of coral appears to cease when th« worm a 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 •top, forming in time a level... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1841 - 400 str.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 str.
...coral appears to cease when the worm 'w no longer exposed lo the washing of the sea. Thus a reef risen in 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 field... | |
 | 1843 - 450 str.
...inches long. 1 he growth of coral appears to cease where 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 tide, above wl.ich the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of course, no longer extends itself... | |
 | David Page - 1844 - 232 str.
...no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form a cauliflower till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends upwards." 302. The composition... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 str.
...longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises m the form of a cauliflower, till ita top has gained the level of the highest tides, above...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... | |
 | David Page - 1845 - 400 str.
...blue colour. 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 the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 str.
...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,...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... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 str.
...again of a blue color. The growth of the coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer washed by the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance,... | |
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