 All the coral at a moderate depth below water is alive — all above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, that it is...  On Molecular and Microscopic Science - Page 140by Mary Somerville - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 450 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. On the lagoon side, where the water is calm, the bounding ring or reef shelves into it by a succession of... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1869 - 618 pages
...on Corni Jìeefs. Dana on Corals 13 the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. On the lagoon side, where the water is calm, the bounding ring or reef shelves into it by a succession of... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. On the lagoon side, where the water is calm, the boundingring, or reef, shelves into it by a succession of... | |
 | 1869 - 622 pages
...hundred yards no bottom has been reached with a pounding line a mile and a half long. All the coral in the exterior of the ring, to a moderate depth below...first warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. ' The outer margins of the Maldive atolls, consisting chiefly of millepores and porites, are beat by... | |
 | Lewis Feuchtwanger - 1870 - 362 pages
...hundred yards, no bottom has been reached with a sounding. line a mile and a half long. All the coral in the exterior of the ring, to a moderate depth below...islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans, that it is tiften heard miles off, and is frequently the fiwt warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll.... | |
 | Mary Somerville, Henry Walter Bates - 1870 - 632 pages
...sounding-line a mile and a half long. All the coral below the surface of the water is alive — all aliove is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed...Pacific and Indian Oceans that it is often heard miles oft', and is frequently the first warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. On the lagoon side,... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...first warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. 5. On the lagoon-side, where the water is calm, the bounding ring or reef shelves into it by a succession... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 446 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the rurf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...first warning to seamen of their approach to an atoll. 5. On the lagoon-side, where the water is calm, the bounding ring or reef shelves into it by a succession... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 212 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the...miles off, and is frequently the first warning to seaman of their approach to an atoll. 6. On the lagoon side, where the water is calm, the bounding... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 474 pages
...above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the Pacific and * See engraving opposite page 96. Indian Oceans, that it is often heard miles off, and is frequently... | |
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