 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...carry off the thousandth part of them. Their enemies, however, are extremely numerous. All the monsters of the deep find them an easy prey; and, in addition...living creatures is divided into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and in their progress they even make... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...Providence has so contrived the balance of nature by giving them innumerable enemies. All the monsters of the deep find them an easy prey ; and, in addition to these, the immense flocks of sea fowl that inhabit the polar regions, watch their outset, and spread devastation on all sides. In... | |
 | 1830 - 188 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... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 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 its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | William Smellie - 1832 - 348 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... | |
 | Henry William Dewhurst - 1834 - 378 pages
...the main body arrives, 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 in breadth ; while the water curls up as the herrings advance, appearing as if forced from its bed. Sometimes... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 pages
...Providence has so contrived the balance of nature by giving them innumerable enemies. All the monsters of the deep find them an easy prey; and, in addition...their outset, and spread devastation on all sides. In the year 1773, the Herrings, for two months, were in such immense shoals on the Scotch coasts, that... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1838 - 184 pages
...of Shetland. " Its breadth and its depth are 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. 1 See the sky curtained by locusts. View the living inundation of the lemings. Expose to a powerful... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 612 pages
...from the Arctic seas, and appear off the Shetland Isles in April and May : they frequently move in columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. The pilchards, on the southern coast of England, and the sardines, on that of France, are caught to... | |
 | 1841 - 444 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... | |
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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. 
