 | 1814 - 644 pàgines
...except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral, sand, and oilier broken remnajits thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form...state, form what is usually called a key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root upon... | |
 | 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
...do not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock,...state, form what is usually called a. key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root upon... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 394 pàgines
...not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark ; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form n solid mass with it, as high- as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants,... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 458 pàgines
...not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low water mark ; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock,...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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pàgines
...not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark ; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea adhere to the rock,...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pàgines
...not work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark; but the coral sand and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with ;t, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1822 - 508 pàgines
...work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark ; but the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock,...state, form what is usually called a key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root upon... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pàgines
...beyond low-water mark; but vhe coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, tihere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1827 - 608 pàgines
...low-water mark ; but the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to t he rock, and form -a solid mass with it, as high as the...state, form what is usually called a key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea-birds : salt plants take root upon... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pàgines
...work, except in holes upon the reef, beyond low-water mark ; but the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock,...state, form what is usually called a Key, upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea-birds: salt plants take root upon... | |
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... high as the common tides reach. 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 the top of the reef. The new bank is not long... 
