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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... branches of trees standing amongst the low mangrove, stunted by want of the free access of the waters of the Ocean. 152. The permanency of the features of this passage is no doubt attributable in the first place to the hard sandstone formation, which is prevalent in the neighbourhood, and which forms the foundation of these islets, as well as of the points which govern the windings of the strait; further, the tides are weak and carry no silt with them, and the drainage is merely that of the adjacent hills, which would amount in the aggregate to 50 square miles, and this, being distributed along the whole length of the Strait, is far too small to affect it. 153. The whole of the shores of the Andamau are skirted by continuous coral reefs. Coral abounds in every bay and is strewn in broken pieces on every beach. These reefs are far more extensive, and form dangers to a far greater distance from the land on the West side than on the East, depths of 100 fathoms being found in many places on the eastern shore within three miles of the coast and generally at a distance of five miles, whereas on the western shore the reefs extend and form dangerous patches at a distance of twenty and twenty-five miles from the land, a fact the probability of which is sufficiently indicated by the geological features of the Islands, the general dip of the stratified rocks being to the eastward and at a high angle, sometimes as much as 75. 154. We were unable to make any observation on the growth of the coral, both on account of the chart being on too small a scale for such a purpose, and our own time not permitting. 155. Navigation amongst coral must, at all times, be hazardous, and the most minute survey may fail to detect some of the isolated rock9...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230440385
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230440380
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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