 ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...  Physical Geography - Page 16by H. J. Lloyd - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pages
...a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any... | |
 | 1818 - 514 pages
...a short time the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water-mark, it is a solid, hard stone ; but if... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are general ly of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...a short time the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and arc generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. \Vfcen the... | |
 | 1818 - 512 pages
...a short time the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch fpod. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock appears in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catrh food. When the coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pages
...a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, prol>ably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock,... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...a short time the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probihly to catch food. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock; they... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 pages
...a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six...colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part... | |
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