 The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and...  La Belle Assemblée - 58 ページ1818全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 ページ
...coral. " The growth of the coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower,...and the reef, of course, no longer extends itself upwards; the other parts in succession reach the surface, and then stop; forming in time a level field,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 ページ
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
 | David Page - 1849 - 372 ページ
...blue colour. The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1850 - 402 ページ
...mehes long. "The growth of eoral appears to eease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a eauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above whieh the worm has no power... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 ページ
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower till its top has gained the level of the...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upward. The surrounding... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 306 ページ
...longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends upwards." The coral... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 ページ
...sometimes of a blue colour. The growth of coral appears to cease when no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcule have no power to advance;... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 550 ページ
...longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalculas have no power to advance; and the reef, of course, no longer extends upwards." Of the myriads... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1856 - 280 ページ
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upward. The surrounding... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 ページ
...sometimes of a blue colour. The growth of coral appears to cease when no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance... | |
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