 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...bones. The tail is forked. * Brown in Phil. Trail, vol. Ixviii. p. 791. ' I * THE COMMON HERRING*. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the...latitudes. In those inaccessible seas that are covered wtih ice for a great part of the year, they find a quiet and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies.... | |
 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...one is furnished with serrated mystaces or connecting bones. The tail is forked. THE COMMON HERRING*. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the...and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies. The quantity of insects which those seas supply is immensely great. Thus remotely situated, and defended... | |
 | Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 pages
...certainty, generally returning the same week in the succeeding year, and not unfrequently the same day. 11 " Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the highest northern latitudes, within the arctic circle. In these inaccessible seas, which are covered with ice during by much the... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 pages
...certainty, generally returning the same week in the succeeding year, and not unfrequently the same day. HERRINGS are found in the greatest abundance in the highest northern latitudes, within the arctic circle. In these inaccessible seas, which are covered with ice during by much the... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1812 - 654 pages
...Kcempfer's account of the fish of that Country, he mentions some that are congenerous ; but Herrings are in the greatest abundance in the highest Northern...are covered with Ice for a great part of the year, the Herring and the Pilchard find a safe retreat from all their numerous enemies ; neither Man, nor... | |
 | 1820 - 188 pages
...of nature. Of all migrating fish, th« herring and the pilchard take the most adventurous voyages. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the...are covered with ice for a great part of the year, the herring and pilchard find a quiet and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies*: thither, neither... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...there. • But of all migrating fish, the Herring and the Pilchard take the most adventurous voyages. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the...are covered with ice for a great part of the year, the herring and pilchard find a quiet and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies: thither neither... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 518 pages
...inaccessible seas, that are covered with ice for a great part of the year, the herring and pilchard find a quiet and sure retreat from all their numerous...neither man, nor their still more destructive enemy, tlie fin-fish, or the cachalot, dares to pursue them. The quantity of insect food which those seas... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...them, are excellent food. THE COMMON HERRING*. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the high northern latitudes. In those inaccessible seas that...and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies. The quantity of food which those seas supply is immensely great. Thus remotely situated, and defended... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...of oil. Of all the migrating fish, the Herring and the Pilchard take the most adventurous voyages. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the...are covered with ice for a great part of the year, the Herring and Pilchard find a quiet and sure retreat from all their numerous enemies: thither neither... | |
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But of all migrating fish, the herring and the pilchard take the most adventurous voyages. Herrings are found in the greatest abundance in the highest northern latitudes. In those inaccessible seas, that are covered with ice for a great part of the year,... 
