 | James Montgomery - 1850 - 402 pages
...the reef of eourse no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in sueeession reaeh the surfaee, and there stop, forming in time a level field with steep sides all round. The reef, however, eontinually inereases, and, being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all direetions.... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 550 pages
...cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalculas have no power to advance; and the reef, of course, no longer extends upwards." Of the myriads upon myriads of organised beings created to work out the grand designs of... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 pages
...cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance ; and the reef, of course, no longer extends upwards." Of the myriads upon myriads of organised beings created to work out the grand designs of... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 pages
...cauliflower, till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance ; and the reef, of course, no longer extends upwards." Of the myriads upon myriads of organised beings created to work out the grand designs of... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 234 pages
...cauliflower till the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends upwards." 302. The composition and construction of coral reefs, though effected chiefly by lime-secreting... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 414 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and, being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But the growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | 1864 - 422 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of...however, continually increases, and, being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But the growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and, being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But the growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1880 - 778 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But the growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1881 - 618 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and, being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But the growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
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The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and... 
