 ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...  The Microscope - Page 235de Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 457 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1818 - 514 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water-mark,... | |
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are general ly of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and arc generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. \Vfcen the... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pages
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, prol>ably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may...pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When the coral is broken, about high water... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 pages
...in motion. The most comRion worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches '°°g> which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be 'uietaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, ^d from four to five inches long,... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probihly to catch food. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock; they are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
 | 1818 - 512 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch fpod. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...appears in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probably to catrh food. When the coral is broken, about high water mark, it is a solid hard stone, but if any part... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 296 pages
...and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When coral is broken, about high water mark,... | |
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