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waters. Such at least is the view to which I have been led by 
simply considering the existing agencies as actually working. : 
f . 
hic 
op-surface of the 
a 4 shells. The 
branching corals grow wherever the violence of the sea does not 
Tn general, wherever there are solid surfaces free from sand 
and mud, and washed by warm moving salt water, the ova of the 
_ Selves and grow, to the limit of their capacity. Thus the stones 
of the Fort Taylor breakwater and foundations, palmetto piles, 
iron — lost overboard, &c., 
corals, except on such accidental bases as may occur and in the 
®oral heads which have grown up on these 
are mainly produced where the action of storms are most 
a x 2: hd 
The structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, by Chas. Darwin, Naturalist of 
hd Beagle Expedition (1822-36), On Coral Reefs and Islands, hy Jas. D. D 
qevlegist U.S Ex. (1888-42) 1853, and in this Journal, 1851-2, vols. outhly, Mt 
v.  Agassiz’s Rept, C. S. Re 1851, App. No. 10, and At 
and June, 1862,” my 
