... the coral, sand, and other broken remnants thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property... Excursons in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land ... - עמוד 128מאת William Henry Breton - 1834 - 420 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 דפים
...reaches. That elevation surpassed, the future ones, being scarcely covered, lose their adhesive property, and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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 berry of a pandanus,... | |
| Robert Mudie - 1829 - 464 דפים
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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... | |
| Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 דפים
...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 tops of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root upon... | |
| 1829 - 436 דפים
...adhesive property ; and, remaining in a loose state, form what is usually culled a key, upon the tops of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea hirds; salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa nut is thrown on... | |
| John Kidd - 1833 - 410 דפים
...elevation surpassed, the future remnants, " being rarely covered, lose their adhesive pro" perty ; and, remaining in a loose state, form " what is usually...reef. The new bank 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... | |
| 1833 - 370 דפים
...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 lu-//, upon the top of the reef The new hank is not long in being visited by sea-birds; salt-plants... | |
| 1834 - 578 דפים
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 דפים
...elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property ; aim remaining in a loose state, form what is usually called a key upon the tops of the reef. The new bank is not long in being visited by sea birds ; salt plants take root upon... | |
| William Henry Breton - 1835 - 454 דפים
...coral, sand, and other broken fragments thrown up by the sea, adhere to the rock, and form a solid mass with it, as high as the common tides reach. That elevation...upon the top of the reef. The new bank is not long in heing visited by sea-birds ; salt water plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ;... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 דפים
...That elevation surpassed, the future remnants, being rarely covered, lose their adhesive property, and remaining in a loose state, form what is usually...bank 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,... | |
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