...what will this tell against the accumulated labours of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous...inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist." There is splendour in such speculations as these, provided experiment and observation warrant the conclusion....

...architects are at work night and day, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous bodies through the agency of the vital laws conquering the...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist." * As the coral animals require to be continually immersed in salt water, they cannot raise themselves...

...another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate tho atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming...which the Coral-polypes obtain the enormous quan* Pwwin;s Journal, p. 548. SOURCES OF LIME IN CORAL. 515 tity of lime deposited by them ; and this question...

...month after month? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist." We may here remark, that while the delicate and branching corals flourish in the tranquil lagoon, it...

...against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month 1 Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus,...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist. We did not return on board till late in the evening, for we stayed a long time in the lagoon, examining...

...architects are at work day and night, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous bodies, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the...inanimate works of Nature could successfully resist." When we consider that these busy millions are silently laying the foundations of islands and of continents,...

...at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polyp, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the...neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature can long resist." On the east coast of New Holland a reef has been described as being one thousand...

...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist. 28th. Sunday. — The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public preaching at nine...

...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist. 28th. Sunday The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public preaching at nine o'clock....

...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfuEy resist. 28th. Sunday. — The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public...