(1704) gebruikt beide woorden hier in de concrete betekenis van ‘ het aangegroeide materiaal ’ .As to the said coral particles , those were not branch - like particles , but they lay beside and upon each other as if they were large grains of sand which had become joined with each other , but when one observed them through the magnifying glass , we saw that their constituent parts were as it were firmly joined and that the base on which they stuck was broader than long .I took the said little shell and sea horn , covered with coral , from a large sponge , and however many other sponges I observed - though I went to two shops which sold sponges - I could not get either shells or sea horns which were covered with coral particles .