...most finished state : the lake rests quietly in its bed of palms, hardly ruffled by the stormsthat madden the surrounding ocean. From the islands with...banks of coral are the smallest of coral islands. These remarks, in connection with the general view given on a preceding page, will prepare the reader...

...marking its original outline. In lagoons of moderate size, the waters form a quiet lake, which rests within its circle of palms, hardly ruffled by the storms that madden the surrounding ocean. In these sheltered situations, the more delicate kinds of coral zoophytes grow in the greatest perfection,...

...marking its original outline. In lagoons of moderate size, the waters form a quiet lake, which rests within its circle of palms, hardly ruffled by the storms that madden the surrounding ocean. In these sheltered situations, the more delicate kinds of coral zoophytes grow in the greatest perfection,...

...concealed by the trees and shrubbery which have spread around and completed the belt of verdure (fig. 53). The coral island is now in its most finished state;...by the storms that madden the surrounding ocean." l It must not be assumed that the atolls are always ring-shaped, although that may be the most perfect...

...surmounted by verdure, forming a series of islets. In many of the smaller coral islands, the lagoon has losO its ocean character, and become a shallow lake, and...In all the larger islands the windward side is the I highest ; and sometimes it is wooded and habitable throughout when the leeward reef is bare. The...