 | 1818 - 590 pages
...fine as a thread, and several feet long ; others ixsembling snails, and not above two inches long. ' The growth of coral appears to 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 level of the highest... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above two inches long. ' The growth of coral 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 the level of the highest tides, above which... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...as fine as 1 a thread, and several feet long, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour.— The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the wash* ing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the... | |
 | Science - 1818 - 512 pages
...tut soft, and not above two inches long. The growth of coral appears 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 level of the highest tides, above which the... | |
 | 1821 - 720 pages
...resemble snaih, and some are not unlike lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above two inches fong. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm...its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above1 which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 730 pages
...resemble snails, and come are not unlike lobsters in shape, but soft, and not above two inches long. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm...Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till itb top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 1826 - 622 pages
...properties of life. In Captain Basil Hall's very interesting account of his voyage to Loo-Choo, he says, " The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Accordingly, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...shape, but soft, and not above two in. '*•* long. «The growth of coral apj»e.ir$ to eta« wl*n Ü* worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in ilie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...and not above two inches long. " The growth of coral appears to cease when the 88 THE PELICAN ISLAND. worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rues in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 388 pages
...lengths and colours ; some being as fine as a thread, of a bright yellow, and sometimes of a blue colour. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm...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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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,... 
