 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...  Outlines of Physical Geography - Page 17by George William Fitch - 1856 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - Korea - 1818 - 504 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance* and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1818 - 574 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...when the worm is no longer exposed to the wash* ing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the level of...highest tides, above •which ; the worm has no power to advance, and ! the reef, of course, no longer extends itself i upwards." — Lord Amhenft Embatsy tt... | |
 | Basil Hall - Japan - 1818 - 220 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises itt the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Science - 1818 - 514 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power ,to advance, and the reef of course no long£r .extends itself upwards. The other parts, in successiqn,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Accordingly, a reef rises in tlie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest 'tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of course, no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession,... | |
 | Science - 1818 - 512 pages
...when the worm is''ritf longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in tjie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Basil Hall - Korea - 1820 - 296 pages
...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...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
| |
