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Ring-formed reefs, marginal and central. Great depths in the lagoons of the southern atolls. Reefs in the lagoons all rising to the surface. Position of islets and breaches in the reefs, with respect to the prevalent winds and action of the waves. Destruction of islets. Connection in the position and submarine foundation of distinct atolls. The apparent disseverment of large atolls.
"The devil take all halves and quarters!" said the Captain; "were it in my option, I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar, than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels." "The parallel will scarce hold, Captain Dalgetty, for I think you would rather consent to the dividing of the dollar, than give it up entire to your competitor.
Besides, it is an understood thing that the addition of gunpowder renders picrate far more effective in blasting such rocks as this, as then the violence of the picrate prepares the way for the powder which, slower in its action, will complete the disseverment of the basalt." Falsten is not a great talker, but what he does say is al- ways very much to the point.
The ring-formed reefs of the Maldiva atolls. The submerged condition of parts or of the whole of some annular reefs. The disseverment of large atolls. The union of atolls by linear reefs. The Great Chagos Bank. Objections from the area and amount of subsidence required by the theory, considered. The probable composition of the lower parts of atolls.
If, on the other hand, the South makes good its pretensions to a separate national existence, no sooner will the disseverment of the Union be an established fact than the slaveholders will have to consolidate once more the system of their 'peculiar institution, to reconstruct the prison which has half crumbled to the ground, and rivet afresh the chains which have been all but struck off.
Several of the atolls in this Archipelago are so related to each other in form and position, that at the first glance one is led to suspect that they have originated in the disseverment of a single one.
The effect of the continued subsidence of a great barrier-reef of this kind, and its probable conversion into a chain of separate atolls, will be noticed, when we discuss the apparent progressive disseverment of the larger Maldiva atolls. On this view, the three classes of reefs ought to graduate into each other.
The apparent progressive disseverment in the Maldiva Archipelago of large atolls into smaller ones, is, in many respects, an important consideration, and requires an explanation. The graduated series which marks, as I believe, this process, can be observed only in the northern half of the group, where the atolls have exceedingly imperfect margins, consisting of detached basin-formed reefs.
But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature. He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering and oh! with agony I thought of what I left.
Mahlos Mahdoo, therefore, is in every respect in so intermediate a condition, that it may be considered either as a single atoll nearly dissevered into three portions, or as three atolls almost perfect and intimately connected. This is an instance of a very early stage of the apparent disseverment of an atoll, but a still earlier one in many respects is exhibited at Tilla-dou- Matte.
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