 | William Westgarth - 1861 - 320 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitation upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase,...gradually formed, which is not long in being visited by sea birds ; saline plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe... | |
 | George French Angas - 1865 - 392 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitation upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase,...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours." CHAPTER II. GEOLOGICAL FEATURES AND PHYSICAL ASPECT OF THE ' COUNTRY. MOUNT GAMBIEit. THE outline of... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 444 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitation upon the rising bank, and die, in their turn, to increase,...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours." QUEENSLAND. CHAPTER VI. FROM CLEVELAND BAY TO PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY. CLEVELAND BAY, in latitude, south,... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - 1876 - 440 pàgines
...adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitation upon the rising bank, and die, in their turn, to increase,...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours." CHAPTER VI. FROM CLEVELAND BAY TO PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY. TOWNSVILLE is the port, 886 miles north-west... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1914 - 618 pàgines
...SHOWING COOK'S AND BLIGH'S TRACKS. T 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... 
