 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 498 pages
...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 Tiefore them curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of ttie 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...account. The breadth and depth 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... | |
 | 1820 - 188 pages
...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, curls up, as if forced out of ils bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 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... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...body approaches, its breadth and its 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 foftr in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 themcurls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes ihvy sink for the... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 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... | |
 | 1826 - 188 pages
...migrate southwards in such quantities, as to alter the very appearance of the sea, being divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four miles in breadth. — This living tide moots in its progress the British Islands, and is thus divided... | |
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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. 
