 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...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 581818Full view - About this book
 | 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...appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | 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...peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for 60nie time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact roek, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but as the... | |
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pages
...dinner ; and the other party having found all things favourable for inspecting the reef. «i,, ... 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... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pages
...some game for dinner ; and the other party having found all things favourable for inspecting the reef. 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... | |
 | 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 pages
...Hall's observations on a coral-reef formation, on the western side of the great Loo-choo island. ' 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 pages
...some game for dinner ; and the other party having found all things favourable for inspecting the reef. 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... | |
 | 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 stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to b;-... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 730 pages
...coral reef during the different stages of 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 ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over... | |
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