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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... "
The Dublin Journal of Temperance, Science, and Literature. ... - Page 79
1843
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 2

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 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...higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. Dut this growth being as rapid at the upper edge as it is lower down, the steepness of the tace of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 18

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
...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...stop, forming in time a level field with steep sides ajl round. The reef, however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 29

1818 - 590 pages
...in tlie 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...no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession, reach the surface, and there btop ; forming, in time, a, level field, with steep sides...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 18

1818 - 428 pages
...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 course, no longer extends itself i upwards." — Lord Amhenft Embatsy tt China. WOMEN. DIDEROT says, that " when •writing on women,...
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Annals of Philosophy: Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy ..., Volume 11

1818 - 514 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 course no long£r .extends itself upwards. The other parts, in successiqn, reach the surface, and there stop,...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 10

1821 - 726 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 this growth being as rapid at the upper...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 10

1821 - 720 pages
...in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above1 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 this growth being as rapid at the upper...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 10

Walter Scott - 1821 - 730 pages
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till itb top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no langer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming...
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Voyages Through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Chinese Sea

1825 - 188 pages
...the side of the house, till it reaches the- surface, above which the worm has no power to advance ; the other parts in succession reach the surface, and...level field, with steep sides all round. The reef, liowever, continually increases, and being prevented from growing higher, extends itself sideways in...
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The Lusiad: An Epic Poem

Luís de Camões - 1826 - 628 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...level field, with steep sides all round. The reef, as it can now reach no higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth, being as...
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