 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 306 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 a short space,... | |
 | 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, then suddenly... | |
 | 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 reflection... | |
 | 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, by herrings... | |
 | 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, by herrings... | |
 | 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, by herrings... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...Lo! gannets huge " herring is derived from the German hter, an army, to express " their numbers. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six " miles in length, and three or four in breadth." The same author, in his Tour in Scotland, 1772, 2d edit. p. 373, 374, observes farther : " In a fine... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 pages
...America, from the Straits of Lkllisle to Cape Hatteras; the other, proceeding easterly in a number of distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, till they reach tlie Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 538 pages
...America, from the Straits of Bellisle to Cape Hatteras; the other, proceeding easterly in a number of distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, till they reach the Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided... | |
 | 1814 - 1026 pages
...America, from the Straits of Beliisle to Cape Halteras : the other, proceeding easterly in a number of distinct columns, of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, till they reach the Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided... | |
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Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or fifteen minutes, then rise again to the surface; and, in bright weather, reflect a variety of splendid colours, like a field bespangled with purple, gold, and azure. 
