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
| Science - 1872 - 806 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... | |
| Charles Marion Tyler - Ethnology - 1885 - 392 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. =•: •-;= * Very erroneous ideas prevail respecting the appearance of a bed or area of growing corals.... | |
| Charles Marion Tyler - Oceania - 1887 - 392 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. * * =;: Very erroneous ideas prevail respecting the appearance of a bed or area of growing corals.... | |
| Charles Marion Tyler - Oceania - 1892 - 426 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. * * * . Very erroneous ideas prevail respecting the appearance of a bed or area of growing corals.... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - Science - 2007 - 417 pages
...aot agree with Darwin's theory of subsidence. be imagined. The surf, beating loud and heavy along tha margin of the reef, presents a strange contrast to...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... | |
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