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chapter 20, corals reef--maldivas;their peculiar structure.

April 12th.-- The nothern Maldiva are Atolls, coral islands in the Indian Ocean. (one pf which is 88 miles in length, and between 10 and 20 in breadth),...are not bounded like ordinary atolls by narrow reefs, there are more of them coming up in the lagoon like spaces.

Some parts of the marchipelago know the date of the first group of islets; in other parts, the corals are now flourishing on water-washed reefs.

It is hard to believe in changes in the tiltal currets of an open ocean. Earthquakes are recorded by the natives on some atolls, and the fissures observed on other atolls, and there is alot of damage, and there alot of changes in the subterranean regions.

The water is rising on the islands so in the many years the island will shrink becaues the water is getting heigher and closer to the land.