Note 3 — Section 30. FORMATION OF A CORAL-ISLAND. I.
Reading edition
‘their — salt-water’. Use the following order of words for rendering this passage: ‘their little houses (dim. of Haus) either through the in them contained glutinous remains (Überreste) or through some (irgend eine) property of the salt-water held together are (Pres. of the Passive Voice)’.