Gannets and others, which follow to prey on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth,... A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 140by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
| George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 pages
...main hody approaches from the north, it alters the very appearance of the ocean : St is divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, which drive the water hefore them with a sort of ripling current. Sometimes they sink for... | |
| William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...outset, and spread devastation on all sides. In their outset, this immense swarm of living creatures is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and in their progress they make even the water Cripple up before them. They are found about... | |
| John Evans - 1804 - 482 pages
...upon them as they proceed. Such is the effect of a shoal, that they change the colour of the ocean ; divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the waves before them with a rippling noise : at times they sink for some minutes,... | |
| John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...supposed to equal the dimensions of Great Britain and Ireland. They are however subdivided into numberless columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, followed by numerous sea fowl, and perceivable by the rippling of the water, and a brilliant... | |
| Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 pages
...occupying a surface, equal at least to the dimensions of Great-Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth; each division, or column, being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen,... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 600 pages
...occupying a surface equal at least to the dimensions of both Great Britain and Ireland, and subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; each division or column being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen,... | |
| 1810 - 312 pages
...and depth is such, as to make a visible alteration in the appearance of the ocean. It is generally divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and the water curls up before ¿hem as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes the whole column,... | |
| George Woods - 1811 - 396 pages
...birds, such as gannets and gulls, which follow and prey upon them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes they sink for... | |
| George Woods - 1811 - 396 pages
...birds, such as gannets and gulls, which follow and prey upon them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes they sink for... | |
| Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 pages
...a surface, equal at least to the dimensions of both Great Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth; each division, or column, being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen,... | |
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