 | Charles Ellms - 1841 - 606 pages
...navigators. But more recent observations have ascertained that, instead of a shoal, it is a low island, about five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, lying in 22° 28" south latitude, and 40° 51" east longitude. Many trees grow upon it, and the western... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...its breadth and depth are such as to alter the 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 water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
 | William Smellie - 1851 - 376 pages
...depth are so great as to change the appearance of the ocean itself. The shoal is generally divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. Their progressive motion creates a kind of rippling or small undulations in the water. They sometimes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...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 curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the water before them with a very perceptible rippling; sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
 | Treasury - 1854 - 278 pages
...breadth and depth is such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns 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 the space of... | |
 | Natural history - 1854 - 322 pages
...breadth and depth are 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. Sometimes they sink for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, then rise again to the surface... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 478 pages
...appearance in the northern parts of Scotland about June. This most valuable fish arrives in enormous shoals, five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth. Their advent is heralded by various sea birds, such as the gannets and gulls, which constantly hover... | |
 | 1856 - 770 pages
...and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct colunms of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive tho water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
 | 1856 - 642 pages
...depth are such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. 'It is divided into distinct columns, five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth.' The very minuteness of this statement of a general fact is sufficient to excite suspicion. Ho goes... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
