 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - 1817 - 394 pagina’s
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 458 pagina’s
...length formed. Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising bank, anfl die in their turn to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pagina’s
...interstices being gradually filled up with sand and broken pieces of coral washed by the sea, which alto adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pagina’s
...coral washed by the sea, which also adhere, a mass of rock is at length formed. Future races of ihese animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising...elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pagina’s
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1828 - 590 pagina’s
...Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising banks, and die in their turns, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. ' " The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1828 - 510 pagina’s
...Future races of these animalcules erect their habitations upon the rising banks, and die in their turns, to increase, but principally to elevate, this monument of their wonderful labours. " The care taken to work perpendicularly in, the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1829 - 464 pagina’s
...to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and the interstices being gradually filled up with...elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pagina’s
...each other, by virtue, either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water ; and the interstices, being gradually filled up with...elevate this monument of their wonderful labours. The care taken to work perpendicularly in the early stages, would mark a surprising instinct in these... | |
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It seems to me, that when the animalcules, which form the corals at the bottom of the ocean, cease to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of the glutinous remains within, or of some property in salt water; and the interstices... 
