Part 26 (2/2)

Even before the trees for their branches, and the stray land-bird soon takes refuge in the bushes At last, man arrives and builds his hut upon the fruitful soil foretation, and calls himself lord and master of this new creation

_Surf_, the white spray or froth of the sea waves

Where is the Coral Insect found?

In nearly all great seas; but particularly in the Mediterranean, where it produces Corallines of the most beautiful forms and colors: it is in the Pacific Ocean, however, where these tiny workes, which exceed the most wonderful works of man

What is that part of the Pacific called, where the Coral Rocks are most abundant?

The Coral Sea, from the number of coral reefs and sunken islands, hich it abounds; it includes a region of many miles in extent, the whole of which is studded with numberless reefs, rocks, islands, and colu towards each other All navigators who have visited these seas, state that no charts orto the nu to the surface The wonderful instinct of these ani, until their labors are finished, or their lives extinct

_Reef_, a chain or line of rocks lying near the surface of the water

_Extinct_, at an end, dead

What are the names of the principal islands of Coral forator's Isles, the Society Islands, the Marquesas, the Garoups are separated from each other by channels or seas, wider than those which divide the individual islands which forroups; but all these waters abound with shoals and minor islets, which point out the existence of a common base, and show that the work by which they will afterwards be united above the level of the sea is continually going forward

_Shoals_, shallows; places where the water is of little depth

_Minor_, less, s

What is a singular characteristic of the Coral Islands?

On all of them a plentiful supply of sweet and fresh waterthree or four feet into the coral; and even within one yard of high-water mark such a supply is to be found They are mostly covered with a deep rich soil, and ooded with trees and evergreens of different kinds These islands vary in extent, as well as in the degree of finish to which they have arrived; so about 30less than acoral

_Diah the middle of a circle

Is Coral put to any use by man?

White Coral, which is nowhere so abundant as about the shores of Ceylon, and others of the neighboring Indian coasts, is employed as li houses, &c, by burning it after the manner of our lime This coral lies in vast banks, which are uncovered at loater Coral, particularly the beautiful red sort, is likewise made into various ornaments, as necklaces, &c

Of what is our Lime composed?

Of a useful earth, which absorbs moisture and carbonic acid, and exists as limestone, or in marble and chalk, which, when burnt, become lime: in its native state it is called carbonate of lie the carbonic acid; when made into a paste, with one part water and three parts lime,[13] and mixed with some other mineral or metallic substances, it for carbonic acid froain carbonate of li

[Footnote 13: See Chapter XVI, article Li spread out or moulded