 The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but...  Outlines of Physical Geography - Page 16by George William Fitch - 1856 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears...a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, 'and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears...a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - Korea - 1818 - 504 pages
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears...a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Basil Hall - Japan - 1818 - 220 pages
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears...be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Science - 1818 - 512 pages
...examination of a coral reef during the different stages of One tide is peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for '"some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 628 pages
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly bard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash Over it, the coral worms protrude... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 590 pages
...the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has 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 over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Basil Hall - Korea - 1820 - 296 pages
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears...a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Europe - 1821 - 726 pages
...of a coral reef daring the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears...a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ;' but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 730 pages
...coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide bai left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a com« pact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over... | |
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