 | English literature - 1814 - 644 pages
...a cocoa nut, or the drupe- of a ininiliinuf, is thrown on shore ; land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees; every high tide, and...island is gradually assumed ; and last of all comes m:m to take possession. Such are the operations of Nature, by means the most feeble," but by numbers... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...formed; a cocoa nut, or the drupe of a pandanus is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. ' Half-w.ay island (in Torres strait) is well advanced in the above progressive state; having been... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - Earth - 1817 - 394 pages
...formed; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus, is thrown on shore; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. Half-way Island is well advanced in the above progressive state ; having been many years, probably... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa nut is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees; every high tide, and...— and last of all comes man to take possession. " This island is well advanced in the above progressive state ; having been many years, probably some... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Science - 1822 - 508 pages
...of a pandanus, is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees 4 every high tide, and still more every gale, adds something...of an island is gradually assumed ; and last of all conies man to take possession. the reach of the highest spring tides, or the wash of the surf in the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 1008 pages
...land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide and gale of wind add something to the bank ; the form of an Island is gradually...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. If we should imagine one of these immense coral reefs to be lifted up by a submarine volcano, and converted... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...shore ; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and ttill more, every gale, adds something to the bank ; the...; and last of all, comes MAN, to take possession." * The words of Mr Chamisso an; : " Their situation with respect to each other, as they often form rows,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 488 pages
...land-birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide and gale of wind add something to the bank; the form of an island is gradually...assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession. If we should imagine one of these immense coral reefs to be lifted up by a sub-marine volcano, and... | |
 | H. J. Lloyd - Physical geography - 1828 - 80 pages
...formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus, is thrown on shore ^ land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and...assumed ; and last of all, comes man to take possession. " Half-way Island is well advanced in the above progressive state ; having been many years, probably... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...the berry of a pandanus, is thrown on shore ; land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of plants, shrubs, and trees ; every high tide, and still more...; and, last of all, comes man to take possession. " Half-way Island is well advanced in the above progressive state ; having been many years, probably... | |
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The new bank is not long in being visited by sea-birds: salt plants take root upon it, and a soil begins to be formed ; a cocoa-nut, or the drupe of a pandanus, is thrown on shore ^ land birds visit it, and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every... 
