Note 208 — Note xxi. § 122.
Reading edition
Dr Foster, in his Voyage round the World, (vol. ii. p. 146,) gives an instance in the South Sea Islands, where the surface of the island, though entirely a coral rock, was raised forty feet above the level of the sea.
[209] A very curious account of the formation of such islands is given by A. Dalrymple, Esq., in the Philosophical Transitions, vol. lvii. p. 394.
[210] Cook's Third Voyage, vol i. p. 221.