 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pàgines
...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...and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which alto adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations... | |
 | 1824 - 1008 pàgines
...animalcules, which form the coral 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 being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 pàgines
...interesting. ' " It seems to me, that, when the coral animalcules cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some propensity in the salt water; and, the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 pàgines
...to me," the captain says, " that, when the coral animalcules cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some propensity in the salt water; and, the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces... | |
 | 1830 - 88 pàgines
...animalcules, which form the coral 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 being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed... | |
 | John Kidd - 1833 - 410 pàgines
...animalcules, which form the coral " at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their " structures adhere to each other by virtue " either of the glutinous...within, or of " some property in salt water ; and the inter" stices being gradually filled up with sand and " broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, "... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pàgines
...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 tin- interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea,... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 pàgines
...to live, their structures adhere to each other by virtue either of the glutinous remains within them or of some property in salt water, and the interstices being gradually filled up by sand and shells, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 388 pàgines
...form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their skeletons still adhere to each other, and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of corals and shells, washed in by the sea, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these... | |
 | London missionary society - 1844 - 808 pàgines
...of the corals at the bottom of the ocean cease to live, their skeletons still adhere to each other, and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral and shell, washed in by the sea, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules... | |
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... adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. 
