 | 1847 - 574 pages
...add to these all the coralline limestone and the other formations, whether calcareous or siliceous, that are the works of insect labour, we should have...accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite, — at least one of the smaller planets, between Mars and Jupiter. And if such a planet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - 606 pages
...limestone and the other formations, whether calcareous or siliceous, that are the works of insect labor, we should have an accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite, — at least one of the smaller planets, between Mars and Jupiter. And if such a planet... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 346 pages
...islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether calcareous...accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite — at least one of the smaller planets, between Mars and Jupiter. And if such a planet... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 pages
...islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether calcareous or silicious, that are the works of insect labor, we should have an accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite —... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 pages
...islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether calcareous or silicious, that are the works of insect labor, we should have an accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite —... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 pages
...islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether calcareous or silicious, that are the works of insect labor, we should have an accumulation of solid matter which would compose a planet or a satellite —... | |
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Were we to unite into one mass the immense coral reefs, three hundred miles long, and the numberless coral islands, some of which are forty and fifty miles in diameter ; and if we add to this all the coralline limestone, and the other formations, whether... 