15 Metaphors for reef

A reef lies two miles and one-third North 72 1/2 degrees West from islet 6, and South 59 degrees East from the summit of Cape Sidmouth; this reef is not more than a quarter of a mile in extent, and has a rock in its centre, that is uncovered at half tide; it is a brown looking shoal, and therefore of dangerous approach.

The cocoanut-trees were gray ghosts against the dark foliage and trunks of the breadfruits and the sugar cane; the reef was a faint gleam of white over the lagoon and a subdued sound of distant waters.

Applying this theory to the coral reef of the Pacific Ocean, the following interesting facts were made out: That where you find an Island rising out of deep water, with a ring of coral round it, a little way from the shoreor, as in Eastern Australia, a coast with a fringing reef (the Flinders reef of Australia is eleven thousand miles long)that is a pretty sure sign that that shore, or mountain, is sinking slowly beneath the sea.

The CASUARINA REEF is a bank of sand and rocks, parts of which are dry, on which the sea occasionally breaks.

The harbor was a gleaming surface, and the reef from this height was a rainbow of color.

Reefs are spaces by which the principal sails are reduced when the wind is too high, and enlarged again when its force abates.

The reef was Gautier; I read "Mdlle. de Maupin."

The road was closer to the water of the lagoon, and the reef and coral banks were nearer.

This reef is a low, dark, rocky islet, with reefs extending off North 45 degrees West three quarters of a mile, and South 56 degrees East, one mile.

The reef itself was a marvel of contrivance by the blind animals which had died to raise it.

[In a recent Number of the MIRROR we quoted from Mr. Montgomery's Pelican Island a beautiful description of the formation of coral reefs or rocks; and we are now induced to resume our extracts from this soul stirring poem, with the following description of the process by which these reefs or rocks become beautiful and picturesque islands.

Off the cape is Naturaliste Reef, in latitude 33 degrees 12 minutes, and longitude 114 degrees 59 minutes 8 seconds; it was seen by the French expedition.

All the boats got into port in good season, and the Reef once more became a scene of life and activity.

the Coral Reef according to these and other data of the same character, it should be about half a foot in a century; and a careful comparison which I have made of the condition of the Reef as recorded in an English survey made about a century ago with its present state would justify this conclusion.

By a rough calculation, however, the group extended east and west sixty-three miles, and north and south about fifty,the Reef being a very little west and a very little south of its centre.

15 Metaphors for  reef