Keeling Island -- Singular appearance -- Scanty Flora -- Transport of Seeds -- Birds and Insects -- Ebbing and flowing Springs -- Fields of dead Coral -- Stones transported in the roots of Trees -- Great Crab -- Stinging Corals -- Coral eating Fish -- Coral Formations -- Lagoon Islands, or Atolls -- Depth at which reef-building Corals can live -- Vast Areas interspersed with low Coral Islands -- Subsidence of their foundations -- Barrier Reefs -- Fringing Reefs -- Conversion of Fringing Reefs into Barrier Reefs, and into Atolls -- Evidence of changes in Level -- Breaches in Barrier Reefs -- Maldiva Atolls, their peculiar structure -- Dead and submerged Reefs -- Areas of subsidence and elevation -- Distribution of Volcanoes -- Subsidence slow, and vast in amount
These ebbing wells are common on some of the low islands in the West Indies.
This observation convinced me that I had nothing to do but to observe the
ebbing and the flowing of the tide, and I might very easily bring my boat about the island again; but when I began to think of putting it in practice, I had such terror upon my spirits at the remembrance of the danger I had been in, that I could not think of it again with any patience, but, on the contrary, I took up another resolution, which was more safe, though more laborious - and this was, that I would build, or rather make, me another periagua or canoe, and so have one for one side of the island, and one for the other.
No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which--and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet--there was literally, in the
ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness.
The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the
ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him -- why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.
AUD-JPY posted a one-week high before
ebbing back, while the likes of EUR-JPY and GBP-JPY have remained below their respective highs from yesterday, although also running higher during the Tokyo AM session.
Of Water (Darkest Hour) McDormand (Three
Ebbing, Missouri) Sam Rockwell
Ebbing, Missouri) Actress: Allison Janney But Good Morning Britain's Piers Morgan criticised Oldman for ignoring Britain in his acceptance speech.
Frances McDormand won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for playing an angry woman seeking justice in dark comedy "Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri." It was the second Academy Award for McDormand, 60, following her best actress win in 1997 for crime drama "Fargo."
> Allison Janney Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri was the biggest winner of the night at the Bafta film awards, while hotly-tipped Darkest Hour star Gary Oldman won the leading actor prize.
LONDON (AFP) - Crime drama "Three Billboards Outside
Ebbing, Missouri" captured five British Bafta awards on Sunday, including best film.
ebbing - a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)