 | 1818 - 514 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish that they may...three round. When the coral is broken, about high water-mark, it is a solid, hard stone ; but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide... | |
 | 1818 - 512 ページ
...six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch fpod. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for...three round. When the coral is broken, about high water-mark, it is a solid, hard stone ; but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide... | |
 | 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 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are general ly of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral... | |
 | 1818 - 590 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probihly to catch food. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock; they are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 ページ
...motion in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be 'uietaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, ^d from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the 1 is broken about high water mark,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may...to five inches long, and two or three round. When coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part of it be detached... | |
 | 1821 - 726 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion, in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may...two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high-water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 730 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion, in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may...two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high-water mark , it is a solid hard stone, but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide... | |
 | 1821 - 720 ページ
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion, in all directions, probabl/ to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may...two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high-water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part of it be detached at a spot which the tide... | |
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The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are... 
