 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
 | 1821 - 720 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 b;- a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 198 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 VI tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1828 - 472 pages
...reef, he observes, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 726 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... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - Physical geography - 1828 - 80 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it lor 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 Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly intereetiug. 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it become« 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... | |
 | Physics - 1834 - 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 to be a compact rock exceed-- ingly hard and rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it lor 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... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 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 rugged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude... | |
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