 ... fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the ocean, with a more rapid descent than the cone of any volcano. Even at the small distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile...  On Molecular and Microscopic Science - Page 140by Mary Somerville - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 450 pages
...or 200 yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to 25 fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile and a half long. A.11 the coral at a moderate depth below water is... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1869 - 618 pages
...or 200 yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to 25 fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile and a half long. All the coral at a moderate depth below water is... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1854 - 596 pages
...or 200 yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to 25 fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...descent than the cone of any volcano. Even at the Einall distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile and a half... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1856 - 96 pages
...boundary ring or reef shelves down to a depth of perhaps a hundred and fifty feet, below which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the ocean with a more steep descent than the cone of any volcano. On the inner or lagoon side, where the water is calm, the... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...or 200 yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to 25 fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...small distance of some hundred yards, no bottom has beea found with a sounding-line a mile and a half long. All the coral at a moderate depth below water... | |
 | 1869 - 622 pages
...and branching corah far exceeds description : 120 species are inhabitants of the Bed Sea alone,-and an enormous area of the tropical Pacific is everywhere...some 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... | |
 | Lewis Feuchtwanger - 1870 - 362 pages
...ao that the sea gradually deepens to about twenty.live fathoms, beyond which the sides of the ringe plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...sounding. line a mile and a half long. All the coral in the exterior of the ring, to a moderate depth below the surface of the water, is alive; all above... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 pages
...yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to twenty-five fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile and a half long. All the coral at a moderate depth below water is... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 444 pages
...yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to twenty-five fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a sounding-line a mile and a half long. All the coral at a moderate depth below water is... | |
 | W G. Baker - 1884 - 212 pages
...yards from its edge, so that the sea gradually deepens to twenty-five fathoms, beyond which the sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the...more rapid descent than the cone of any volcano- Even SEVENTH GEOGRAPHICAL READER. at the small distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with... | |
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