 | 1831 - 1008 páginas
...breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides, except the north, it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact, calcareous substance... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 páginas
...breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides, except the north, it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous substance... | |
 | 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 - 1831 - 570 páginas
...hreadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides, except the north, it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous substance... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 páginas
...is called Elizabeth or Henderson's Island, and is five miles in length by one in breadth. It has a flat surface, and on all sides except the north, is...fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous * According... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 644 páginas
...breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides except the north it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs, about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous substance... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 640 páginas
...breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides except the north it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs, about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous substance... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 páginas
...the sea level. Sometimes whole coral islets are thus upraised. Among these, Elizabeth or Hendersonts Island, examined by Captain Beechey, is one of the...sides, except the north, is bounded by perpendicular cliffts about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral. In some parts, the height of the surface... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1855 - 652 páginas
...breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides except the north it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs, about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less porous, honeycombed at the surface, and hardening into a compact calcareous substance... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1858 - 644 páginas
...of the submergence of whole islands have occurred, •within the period of recent tradition. 1146. The evidence in regard to the areas of elevation is...eighty feet above the water level. The face of the cliffs presented a smooth surface, and was destitute of any ridges or other indication of the action... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1868 - 876 páginas
...ft B called Elizabeth or Henderson's Island, and is five miles in length by one in breadth. It has a flat surface, and, on all sides, except the north,...perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirety of dead coral, more or less porous, honey-combea at the surface, and bar* Voyage to the Pacific,... | |
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The island is five miles in length, and one in breadth, and has a flat surface nearly eighty feet above the sea. On all sides, except the north, it is bounded by perpendicular cliffs about fifty feet high, composed entirely of dead coral, more or less... 
