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But it is probable that a similar submarine eruption had taken place after the earthquake which preceded his visit to the Keeling Islands in 1836. "Birds in the Bush." By Bradford Torrey. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. We like the name of Mr. Torrey's book, which seems to carry with it a practical reversal of the proverb that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
In the night-watches he was overtaken with an idea, so simple and so luminous that he wondered he had never conceived it before. It was full of craft. He would seek Maisie on a week-day, would suggest an excursion, and would take her by train to Fort Keeling, over the very ground that they two had trodden together ten years ago.
But his occupations are irregular undertaken by fits and starts, and never to be counted on. His evenings he usually devotes to poetry and pipes for the captain is obstinate, and sticks like most of us to his failings as well as his fancies. There is a certain eccentric individual with an enthusiastic temperament and blue binoculars who pays frequent and prolonged visits to the Keeling Islands.
Moor; for to his practical mind some re-arrangement of the cargo already on board might be necessary for the reception of that to be picked up at Keeling. "The cargo we'll take on board will be a girl," said the captain. "A what, sir?". "A girl." "Very well, sir." This ended the business part of the conversation.
APRIL 1st. We arrived in view of the Keeling or Cocos Islands, situated in the Indian Ocean, and about six hundred miles distant from the coast of Sumatra. When the ship was in the channel at the entrance, Mr. Liesk, an English resident, came off in his boat. The history of the inhabitants of this place, in as few words as possible, is as follows. About nine years ago, Mr.
We recommend those who desire more curious information on the fauna and flora of the Keeling Islands to apply to Henry O. Forbes most interesting book, A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, published by Sampson Low.
'Quite right. Now we'll get some lunch and go on to Fort Keeling, unless you'd rather drive there? 'We must walk, out of respect to the place. How little changed it all is! They turned in the direction of the sea through unaltered streets, and the influence of old things lay upon them.
Nevertheless, at Keeling atoll I observed on all sides of the lagoon old cocoa-nut trees undermined and falling; and in one place the foundation-posts of a shed, which the inhabitants asserted had stood seven years before just above high-water mark, but now was daily washed by every tide: on inquiry I found that three earthquakes, one of them severe, had been felt here during the last ten years.
After leaving Keeling Island, our pace got generally slower. It also got more unpredictable, often taking us to great depths. Several times we used our slanting fins, which internal levers could set at an oblique angle to our waterline.
Zone of Nulliporae. Conglomerate. Depth of lagoons. Sediment. Reefs submerged wholly or in part. Breaches in the reef. Ledge-formed shores round certain lagoons. Conversion of lagoons into land. I will here give a sketch of the general form and structure of the many atolls and atoll-formed reefs which occur in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, comparing them with Keeling atoll.
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