 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 414 pages
...the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with anus from four to six inches long, which are moved about...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 388 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...for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark color, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken about high-watermark,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo Choo was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably in search of food. Others were so sluggish,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it hecomes dry, and appears to he a compact rock, exceedingly hard and rugged ; but...colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high-water, it is a solid hard stone ; but if any part... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1864 - 458 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 inches long, which are moved about in a rapid motion, in all directions, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may... | |
 | 1864 - 422 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 inches long, which are moved about in all directions with a rapid motion, probably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 pages
...rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms or tentacma, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces '^f the rock and are generally of a dark colour. When the coral is oroicen above ing'h-Wdtei ma;k,... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 pages
...surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo Choo was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably in search of food. Others were so sluggish... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1867 - 142 pages
...motion. * 62. ' ' The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (an island in the Pacific east of China), was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably in search of food. Others were so sluggish... | |
 | M. J. OGLE - 1870 - 304 pages
...and colours ; sometimes they are bright yellow, sometimes blue, sometimes red ; sometimes they are in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, sometimes they are like long threads, sometimes like tiny lobsters and prawns. These tiny creatures,... | |
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... 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... 
