 ... the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property...  Excursons in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land ... - Pàgina 128per William Henry Breton - 1834 - 420 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1814 - 644 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...reef. The new bank 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-... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...reef. The new bank 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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 394 pàgines
...rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is visually called a key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants lake root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 458 pàgines
...covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called &key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called a key upon (he tops of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1822 - 508 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...reef. The new bank 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... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive properly ; and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called a kt'y, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plant?... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1827 - 608 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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,... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pàgines
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 pàgines
...reaches. That elevation surpassed, the future ones, being scarcely covered, lose their adhesive property, and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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 berry of a pandanus,... | |
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