 | 1814 - 644 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitation!! on the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to derate, this Monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 394 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 458 pàgines
...length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, anfl die in their turn to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pàgines
...interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which alto adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of ihese animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | 1824 - 1008 pàgines
...says, " We had wheat sheaves, mushrooms, stag's horns, cabbage leaves, and a variety of other forms, 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,... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pàgines
...the sea, whic adhere, a mass .of rock is at 1 formed. Future races of animalcules erect their habit upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase,...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,... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 pàgines
...Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising banks, and die in their turns, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. ' " The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in... | |
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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... 
