| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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