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 - Page 314edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1818 - 590 pages
...Lyra, which the Loo-choos call by the uauiu of Lnn-kuan-s/utn, which alto signifies Sulphur Island. V 4 Captain Captain Hall's observations on a coral-reef...particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for sometime it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...given a very excellent description of its structure, and of the animals which inhabit its cavities. ' The examination of a coral reef during the different...dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly bard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash Over it, the coral worms protrude... | |
| Science - 1818 - 512 pages
...the protoxide, or yellow oxide of the systematic writers. X. On the Formation of Coral Reef s.-\- ?i 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 it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
| 1818 - 428 pages
...desired concerning that natural pheno> menon, the formation of a country by the labours of 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 it becomes dry, and appears to be a... | |
| Science - 1818 - 514 pages
...it is in fact the protoxide, ar yellow oxide of the systematic writers. X. On the Formation of Coral The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for 60nie time it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
| 1818 - 590 pages
...close a resemblance to those found in Europe, — the reefs of coral which abound in low latitudes. The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, seems, as Captain Hall remarks, to be particularly interesting. When the tide has left the reef for... | |
| 1821 - 720 pages
...description of the coral reef, that remarkable production, so widely diffused over the Pacific : " The examination of a coral reef during the different...left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to b;- a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 730 pages
...description of the coral reef, that remarkable production, so widely diffused over the Pacific : " The examination of a coral reef during the different...one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide bai left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a com« pact rock, exceedingly hard and... | |
| Basil Hall - China - 1826 - 392 pages
...fluctuations in the aspect of the sky bring such mortifying disappointments as the practical astronomer. The examination of a coral reef during the different...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... | |
| James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 198 pages
...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...compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the VI tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
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