Rising at once from an unfathomable ocean, it extends 1000 miles along the coast, with a breadth varying from 200 yards to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even 70 miles. The... On Molecular and Microscopic Science - Page 139by Mary Somerville - 1869 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mary Somerville - 1849 - 450 pages
...is the grandest coral formation existing. Rising at once from an unfathomable ocean, it extends 1000 miles along the coast, with a breadth varying from...to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even 70 miles. The great arm of the sea... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1869 - 618 pages
...grandest coral formation existing. Basing at once from an unfathomable ocean, it extends 1000 milea along the coast, with a breadth varying from 200 yards...to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even 70 miles. The great arm of the sea... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...the grandest coral formation existing. Rising at once from an unfathomable ocean, it extends 1,000 miles along the coast, with a breadth varying from...to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, in some places increasing to 60 and even 70 miles. The great arm of the sea... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 142 pages
...Australian Continent is the grandest coral formation in existence. It stretches along a line of 1000 miles, with a breadth varying from 200 yards to a mile, and at a distance from the shore which attains a maximum of 70 miles but seldom exceeds 30. Thus between it... | |
| 1869 - 622 pages
...grandest coral formation existing. Rising at once from an unfathomable depth of ocean, it extends for 1000 miles along the coast, with a breadth varying from...the coast, the depth of the channel being from 10 to GO fathoms. The pulse of the ocean, transcendently sublime, beats perpetually in peals of thunder along... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...magnitude. The grandest is that extending along the north-east coast of Australia. Rising from an unfathomed ocean, it extends for a thousand miles along the coast, with a breadth of from two hundred yards to a mile, and at an average distance of twenty or thirty miles, though sometimes... | |
| William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1874 - 416 pages
...Barrier reef is off the north-east coast of Australia. It extends for a length of about 1000 miles, with a breadth varying from 200 yards to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even 70 miles. The depth of the water... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 pages
...a barrier reef is found off the NE coast of Australia. It extends for a length of over 1000 miles, with a breadth varying from 200 yards to a mile, and at an average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even 70 miles. The depth of the water... | |
| William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1881 - 458 pages
...Barrier reef is off the north-east coast of Australia. It extends for a length of about 1000 miles, with a breadth varying from 200 yards to a mile, and at aa average distance of from 20 to 30 miles from the shore, increasing in some places to 60 and even... | |
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