Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 295
on since the growth of the corals. In explainingby any theory the formation of coral reefs, we must consider allthe phenomena presented by the three great classes as enumera-ted in the preceding description. To ourselves the explanationproposed by Mr. Darwin in his volume upon •« The structure… … LEVEL OF SEAdence of the land. Let us then take an island surrounded by BARRIER REEFS. 293 fringing reefs, and let this island with its reef, represented by theunbroken lines in the wood cut, slowly subside. As the island sinksdown, the reel continually grows upward; as the island subsidesthe space…
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-96-364.webp)
