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Pasajes populares
Página 186 - HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. By EDGAR SANDERSON, MA, late Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge. With numerous Pictorial Illustrations, Genealogical Tables, Maps, and Plans. 444 pp., cloth, red edges, 2s.
Página 98 - It was a sight to gaze at for hours, and no description can do justice to its surpassing beauty and interest. For once, the reality exceeded the most glowing accounts I had ever read of the wonders of a coral sea. There is perhaps no spot in the world richer in marine productions, corals, shells, and fishes than the harbor of Amboyna.
Página 108 - ... sides plunge at once into the unfathomable depths of the ocean, with a more rapid descent than the cone of any volcano. Even at the small distance of some hundred yards no bottom has been found with a soundingline a mile and a half long. All the coral at a moderate depth below water is alive — all above is dead, being the detritus of the living part, washed up by the surf, which is so tremendous on the windward side of the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, that it is often...
Página 109 - The size of these fairy-rings of the ocean varies from 2 to 90 miles in diameter, and islets are frequently formed on the coral rings by the washing up of the detritus, for they are so low that the waves break over them in high tides or storms. They have openings or channels in their circuit, generally on the leeward side, where the tide enters, and by these ships may sail into the lagoons, which are excellent harbours, and even on the surface of the circlet or reef itself there are occasionally...
Página 186 - No. III. for Standard V. OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Part I., from Early Times to the end of the Tudor Period. 244 pp. , cloth boards, Is.
Página 109 - ... with those which build the exterior wall and the foundations of the whole ring. The perpetual change of water brought into contact with the external coral by the breakers probably supplies them with more food than they could obtain in a quieter sea, which may account for their more luxuriant growth. At the same time, they deprive the whole of the coral in the interior of the most nourishing part of their food, because the still water in the lagoon, being supplied from the exterior by openings...