On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man: Principally with Reference to the Supply of His Wants, and the Exercise of His Intellectual FacultiesWilliam Pickering, 1833 - 375 من الصفحات |
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... Coral Reefs .... 204 III . Vegetables as a Source of Food 216 IV . Vegetables as applicable to Medicine 225 V. Vegetables as applicable to the Arts , & c . 232 Page CHAP . IX . ADAPTATION OF ANIMALS TO THE CONTENTS . XV.
... Coral Reefs .... 204 III . Vegetables as a Source of Food 216 IV . Vegetables as applicable to Medicine 225 V. Vegetables as applicable to the Arts , & c . 232 Page CHAP . IX . ADAPTATION OF ANIMALS TO THE CONTENTS . XV.
الصفحة 204
... Coral Reefs . For the purpose of introducing in a more par- ticular manner the general subject of this chap- ter , and as an impressive example of the im- portant ends which nature often accomplishes by the simplest means , I propose to ...
... Coral Reefs . For the purpose of introducing in a more par- ticular manner the general subject of this chap- ter , and as an impressive example of the im- portant ends which nature often accomplishes by the simplest means , I propose to ...
الصفحة 205
... coral : and all the adjacent ocean abounds with coral reefs , which , constantly augmenting , are constantly changing the state of bays , and ports , and gulfs ; so that new charts are continually re- quired for the same coasts . From ...
... coral : and all the adjacent ocean abounds with coral reefs , which , constantly augmenting , are constantly changing the state of bays , and ports , and gulfs ; so that new charts are continually re- quired for the same coasts . From ...
الصفحة 206
... coral reefs ; which was at first mistaken by him for land . " This proved to be , " he says , " another of those low or half- " drowned islands , or rather a large coral shoal , " of about twenty leagues in circuit . A very " small part ...
... coral reefs ; which was at first mistaken by him for land . " This proved to be , " he says , " another of those low or half- " drowned islands , or rather a large coral shoal , " of about twenty leagues in circuit . A very " small part ...
الصفحة 207
... coral is greater than that of sea - water , the structure of a coral reef necessarily commences either from the natural bed of the ocean , or from the surface of some submarine rock ; and , as may be collected from the nature of the ...
... coral is greater than that of sea - water , the structure of a coral reef necessarily commences either from the natural bed of the ocean , or from the surface of some submarine rock ; and , as may be collected from the nature of the ...
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