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" ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... "
The Harvest of the Sea: Including Sketches of Fisheries & Fisher Folk - Page 163
by James Glass Bertram - 1873 - 340 pages
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A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI.

John Knox - 1787 - 566 pages
...furface equal to the dimenfions of Great Britain and Ireland, but fubdivided into columns of five or fix miles in length, and three or four in breadth, each line or column being led, according to the idea of fifhermen, by herrings of more than ordinary fize. The herrings fwim near the furface, finking...
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A View of the British Empire, More Especially Scotland: With Some Proposals ...

John Knox - 1789 - 736 pages
...equal to the dimenfions of Great Britain and Ire-, land, but fubdivided into columns of five or fix miles in length, and three or four in breadth, each line or column being led, according to the idea of fifh-. ermen, by herrings of more than ordinary fize. The herrings fwim near the furface, finking...
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Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: Cornwall

George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 pages
...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 a short space,...
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Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 3

William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...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 Shetland...
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Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States ..., Volume 1

John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...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 reflection...
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Observations upon the town of Cromer ... as a watering place, and ... its ...

Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 pages
...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, by herrings...
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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ...

Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 592 pages
...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, by herrings...
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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ...

Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 598 pages
...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 5 each division or column being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings...
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A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Volume 1

1810 - 312 pages
...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, sinks...
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Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 pages
...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, by herrings...
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