 | 1818 - 514 ページ
...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 tide rises,...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 generally of... | |
 | 1818 - 590 ページ
...left it for sometime it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash...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 generally of... | |
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 ページ
...left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash...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 generally of... | |
 | 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
...left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, 'and the waves begin to wash...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... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 ページ
...left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash...moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, prol>ably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock,... | |
 | 1818 - 590 ページ
...were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes ; and in such number, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock...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... | |
 | 1818 - 428 ページ
...and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock appears in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catrh food. When the coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 ページ
...left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash...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 generally of... | |
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... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common... 
