REEFS AND IStANDS 
(1,1'1'tiQnl^ open, or at least lowest. 
I ilis 1 hav 
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They will also 
^ tiot ~ soundings there, as the remains of the 
V b will be under water. Where 
't’ill ettposed to the common monsoon, 
become either round, 
0 ’’S to a., parallel, or of irregular forms, ac- 
1>1,, Ptaljj ®^^*dental circumstances, 
di^'* =i livg] '"’‘^ers, in his voj^age to ' Terra Au’stialis, 
'■•!; I interesting description of a coral reel on 
^nast of New South Wales. On this reef 
I's''' water being very clear round the edges, 
were, but imitative of the old, was 
'^abb '^'sw. Wheat sheaves, mushrooms, stags* 
S>S leaves, and a variety of otlier forms, were 
''t-jn SrppQ ®'" 'W'ater with vivid tints of every shade be- 
’ ana brown, and white ; equalling in 
excelling in grandeur the most favourite 
t^oral ^ ^'^''ious florist. These were different spe- 
fungus, growing, as it were, out of the 
'■ bn^ pectiliar form and shade of 
. >JiP 'vhilst 
V 'if n ,'=.«>-als 
rl ••‘■‘iioL t,uiiLuuj^/iauiig 
f'>rp-r,f.^'’*'''^‘^'^ion with which it 
■ten. 
contemplating the richness of the 
was pregnant could 
^ dull ^ dead state, concreted into a solid 
jSji, ri)g 'White colour, composed the stone of the 
f rest; keads lumps which stood higher 
*tetit^ tt'eathg ! being generally dry, were blackened 
nits ’^^’■Jils '’.kuteven in these tire forms of thedif- 
^S|.''ft[ie ^”tl some shells were distinguishable. The 
®uf, but particularly on the outside wheie 
'■1(1 ^tid Were the lightest parts ; within these were 
^6d ^J^’itnberj '^^'^taining live corals, sponges. 
N .’^Poti 
and 
,i;q; many enormous 
_ _ sea-eggs, 
cockles wei'e scat- 
of the reef. At low-water. 
S is 
y naost commonly to lie half open; but 
* 'hen*^ ™uch noise— and the water withir 
s fj.^ spouts up in a stream, three or four feel 
(■^tly^ are ^ noise and the spouting of the water 
*L- ^ ri '* ke j-’*?°''®fed, for, in other respects, they are 
'^®3crip|,.‘®’^'ngui,shed from the coral rock. 
the ^ coral island which he afterwards 
*‘ 8 me coast, is truly philosophical, aiv^ 
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