 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 - Strona 581818Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Basil Hall - 1826 - Liczba stron: 392
...fluctuations in the aspect of the sky bring such mortifying disappointments as the practical astronomer. The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1827 - Liczba stron: 296
...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 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 - 1827 - Liczba stron: 360
...fluctuations in the aspect of the sky bring such mortifying disappointments as the practical astronomer. The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the sea has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - Liczba stron: 80
...following is extracted from Captain Basil Hall's narrative of his voyage to the Loo Choo islands : — " The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it lor some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - Liczba stron: 726
...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 be... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - Liczba stron: 516
...reels, extracted from Captain BASIL HALL'S Voyage to the Island of Loo Choa, im the Chinese Sea. " The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly intereetiug. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | 1834 - Liczba stron: 574
...— '• 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 exceed-- ingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral... | |
 | 1834 - Liczba stron: 578
...following is extracted from Captain Basil Hall's narrative of his voyage to the Loo Choo islands : — '• The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it lor some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - Liczba stron: 398
...following is extracted from Capt. Basil Hall's narrative of his voyage to the LooChoo islands : — " 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... | |
 | 1836 - Liczba stron: 424
...islands : — "The examination of a coral reef, during the different istages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time,...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... | |
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