Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... such, as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth... "
Scenes of commerce, by land and sea; or, 'Where does it come from?' answered ... - Page 96
by Isaac Taylor - 1836
Full view - About this book

British Zoology, Volume 3

Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...which follow to prey on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and its depth is £uch as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into diftina: columns of five or fix miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water...
Full view - About this book

The Stockton bee: or, Monthly miscellany

1795 - 460 pages
...others, which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, Its breadth and depth is fuch as to alter the •appearance of the very ocean. It is divided intodiftiiidt columns oi five or fix miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive...
Full view - About this book

Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 5, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...others, which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth i* fuch as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into dUtinct columns of five or fix miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water...
Full view - About this book

The Dictionary of Merchandize and Nomenclature in All European Languages

C. H. Kauffman - 1815 - 460 pages
...and others, which follow to prey upon them: but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such, as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth; and they drive the water before them,...
Full view - About this book

The Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity

Thomas Gisborne - 1818 - 294 pages
...other birds which prey upon it. " But when the main body approaches, its breadth and its depth are such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or »ix miles in length, and three or four in breadth." A similar conclusion as to the multiplication...
Full view - About this book

The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...diminishing a host in which millions more or less are of no account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the water before them with a...
Full view - About this book

The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 2

1822 - 588 pages
...others, winch follow to prey on them, jittt when the main body approaches, its breadth and its depth is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or foftr in breadth, and they drive the water before them...
Full view - About this book

Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 6

1823 - 878 pages
...other», which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is buch as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of live or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them...
Full view - About this book

The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 6

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them...
Full view - About this book

A Picture of the Seasons;: With Anecdotes and Remarks on Every Month in the ...

1830 - 188 pages
...diminishing a host, in which millions more or less are of no account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the water before them with a...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF