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Title: The history of Barbados (electronic resource) : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island, a sketch of the historical events since the settlement and an account of its geology and natural productions
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir, 1804-1865
Subjects: Economics Natural history
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
Contributing Library: Harvard University
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ados will prove that they do notconsist of a mass alike compact, but of an accumulation of calcare-ous matter, exuviae of the coral animals, cemented together by carbomteof lime, and frequently hardened into a compact limestone with conchoaWfracture and translucent edges. The following diagram will explain myopinion respecting the structure of these great masses of coral rock, wkkkhave in some instances been perforated to a depth of two hundred aolforty feet, without finding any other rock than coralline limestone. possesses numerous depressions, which have been deepened in many mstaneei bfart, and are used as reservoirs for rain-water. One of these cavities near CtitfcGrant is of great depth; and Sohers Bottom, in St. Philips, is, according to tui-tion, bottomless. This is not probable; the depression must be however of gi**depth to have given rise to the idea.1 Darwins Coral Reefs, p. 84. GEOLOGICAL DESCIUPTIhN 539 Fig. l>.—Section fn>m Payne** Bav through Slurge** to Soft R
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