 | 1814 - 644 דפים
...animalcute which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structure* ndhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 458 דפים
...whilst others are overflowed with every returning tide. It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean,...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, anfl die in their turn to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours.... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1822 - 508 דפים
...whilst others are overflowed with every returning tide. "It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean,...die in their turn, to increase, but principally to * Vol. II. p. in, 115, lie. elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 דפים
...water; and, the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed up by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising banks, and die in their turns, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 דפים
...water; and, the interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed up by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at...animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising banks, and die in their turns, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful... | |
 | 1829 - 436 דפים
...whilst others are overflowed with every returning tide. " It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean,...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 דפים
...by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of these animalcule erect their habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevater this monument of their wonderful labors.' It is pretty well authenticated that these submarine... | |
 | 1834 - 578 דפים
...whilst others are overflowed with every returning tide. " It seems to me, that when the animalcules which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean cease...length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect then- habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turn, to increase, but principally to elevate... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 דפים
...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...habitations upon the rising bank, and die in their turns to increase, but principally to elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. An able voyager... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 דפים
...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 animalcules spread out upon the rising bank, and in their turn die, increase and elevate this wonderful monument... | |
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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... 
