 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animals erect their habitations on the rising- bank, and die in their turn, to increase,...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours." Captain Hall, in his late visit to the ¡stand of Loochoo, had a good opportunity of examining the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 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... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animals erect their habitations on the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase,...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours." With respect to the islands formed principally of coral, it has been observed that, " As soon as the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pàgines
...property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with sand nnd broken piccesg of coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass...formed, which is not long in being visited by seabirds ; salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 656 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 610 pàgines
...by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animaleules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 698 pàgines
...Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in theirturn 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... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pàgines
...by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalculae erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and...formed, which is not long in being visited by seabirds ; salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus,... | |
 | 1860 - 478 pàgines
...virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and the insterstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces...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,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 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... | |
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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... 
