 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | 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
...during the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, 'and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...reef during the different stages of one tide, is peculiarly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly bard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash Over it, the coral worms protrude... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...the different stages of one tide is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for sometime it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 pages
...during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
 | 1821 - 720 pages
...it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to b;- a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash...themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animaU are of-a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short... | |
 | 1821 - 726 pages
...daring the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ;' but as the tide rises, and the waves begin to wash over it, the coral worms protrude themselves... | |
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The examination of a coral reef during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and ragged ; but... 
