The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 139
with ease. The Coral Islands, in Polynesia, are nearly all of this horse-shoeformation, so that of thirty-two examined by Captain Beechey (t),twenty-nine liad lagoons in the centre, tlie land being merely a nar-row ring. Some of these lagoons were as deep as tliirty-eightfathoms, and the largest… … Fig. 2.—View uf Whit.suiiilay I>luiul. _iLt. Fig. 3.—Section of Whitsunday Island. The channel leadhig from the sea into the lagoon is nearly alwaysa deep narrow passage, which is kept open by the etHiix of the seaat low tides. Lyell observes, that it is sufficient that a reef shouldrise a few…
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