 | 1830 - 88 pages
..." We had wheat sheaves, mushrooms, stag's horns, cabbage leaves, and a variety of other forms, all glowing under water, with vivid tints of every shade...formed, which is not long in being visited by sea-birds ; salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus,... | |
 | John Kidd - 1833 - 318 pages
...to each other by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly, in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1833 - 502 pages
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and tin- interstices being gradually filled up with sand and...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct iu these... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1834 - 448 pages
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect then- habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their...elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early Stages would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1835 - 454 pages
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | 1836 - 566 pages
...to each other by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly, in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 pages
...Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turns to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. An able voyager (Captain Flinders), who has written on the formation of coral reefs, observes, that... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
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It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices... 
