 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,...  Glimpses of Irish Industries - Page 195by John Bowles Daly - 1889 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 pages
...man. When their 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... | |
 | 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 appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the... | |
 | 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 appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...birds, snch as 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 i - divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...deposit their spawn in Warmer latitudes. The grand shoal does not appear till June. It is so large that it is divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, sinking and rising in the ocean, and exhibiting, in bright weather the most beautiful resplendency... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1817 - 632 pages
...birds, such ai Gunnel< 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 fire or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and they drive the... | |
 | 1856 - 838 pages
...birds, such as gounets and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when tho ruaiu body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocenn. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...birds, such as gannets and others, which follow to pr'-r on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It i> divided into distinct columns of fire or iix miles in length TOL. T. 1 u and three or four in breadth,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...bodies of ganéis and other birds which accompany 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. This body is divided into distinct columns of live, or six miles ¡n length and three or four in breadth,... | |
 | 1820 - 188 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannel, the gull, the shark, and the porpoise. When the main body is arrived, 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 broad; while the water before them,... | |
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