 ... after this the calcareous sand lies undisturbed, and offers to the seeds of trees and plants cast upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the...  A class-book of physical geography - Page 234by William Hughes - 1868Full view - About this book
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...npon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...islands, find here, at length, a resting-place, after many wanderings : with these come some small animals, snch as insects and lizards, as the first inhabitants.... | |
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...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings ; with these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
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...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings: with these, come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
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...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings : with these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
 | 1822 - 582 pages
...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings : with these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
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...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place after their long wanderings ; with them come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
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...which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which arc carried by the rivers from other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings: with these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
 | 1826 - 408 pages
...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings. With these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
 | 1826 - 400 pages
...upon it by the waves, a soil upon which they rapidly grow to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire trunks of trees, which are carried by the rivers...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings. With these come some small animate, such as lizards and... | |
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...upon it by the waves, a soil, upon which they rapidly grow, to overshadow its dazzling white surface. Entire, trunks of trees, which are carried by the...other countries and islands, find here, at length, a resting place, after their long wanderings. With these come some small animals, such as lizards and... | |
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