 Shortly after the points enlarge into the plumed tops of cocoa-nut trees, and a line of green, interrupted at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and...  Corals and Coral Islands - Page 162by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...heavy along the margin of the shore, and presents a strange contrast to the white coral beach beyond, the massy foliage of the grove, and the embosomed lake with its tiny islets. It is altogether a most interesting and attractive spectacle, and one that might well make an explorer... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Oceania - 1851 - 382 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...water is often as blue as the ocean, although but fifteen or twenty fathoms deep ; yet shades of green and yellow are intermingled, where patches of... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1851 - 346 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...and the embosomed lake, with its tiny islets. The colour of the lagoon water is often as blue as the ocean, although but fifteen or twenty fathoms deep... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...grove, and the embosomed lake with its tiny islets. The colour of the lagoon water is often as blue as the ocean, although but fifteen or twenty fathoms deep... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...grove, and the embosomed lake with its tiny islets. The colour of the lagoon water is often as blue as the ocean, although but fifteen or twenty fathoms deep... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1856 - 372 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...water is often as blue as the ocean, although but fifteen or twenty fathoms deep ; yet shades of green and yellow are intermingled, where patches of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
...heavy along the margin of the shore, and presents a strange contrast to the white coral beach beyond, the massy foliage of the grove, and the embosomed lake with its tiny islets. It is altogether a most interesting and attractive spectacle, and one that might well make an explorer... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Biology - 1861 - 446 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene of more interest can scarcely * This does not agree with Darwin's theory of subsidence. be imagined. The surf, beating loud and heavy... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...at intervals, is traced along the water's surface. Approaching still nearer, the lake and its belt of verdure are spread out before the eye, and a scene...presents a strange contrast to the prospect beyond. There lie the white coralbeach, the massy foliage of the grove, and its embosomed lake with its tiny... | |
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