| 1814 - 644 pàgines
...water , and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand, and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...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... | |
| 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
...salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die, in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 394 pàgines
...salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful... | |
| 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...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...salt water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of 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 bank, and die in their turn, to increase,... | |
| 1824 - 1008 pàgines
...salt-water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful... | |
| H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pàgines
...salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful... | |
| Robert Mudie - 1829 - 464 pàgines
...salt water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful... | |
| Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pàgines
...water ; and the interstices, being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral, washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the , rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful... | |
| 1829 - 436 pàgines
...water ; and the interstices, being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their hahitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate this... | |
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