| Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 628 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, immense flocks of sea-fowl watch their outset, and spread devastation on all sides. In the year ] 773,... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...account. The breath 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 of... | |
| Natural history - 1854 - 320 pages
...main body is arrived, its 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...themain 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 the... | |
| Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pages
...Providence has kept equal the balance of nature, by giving them innumerable enemies. All the monsters of the deep find them an easy prey ; and in addition...these, the immense flocks of sea-fowl that inhabit the northern regions, watch for their appearance, and spread devastation on all sides. In the year 1773,... | |
| William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...carry off the thousandth part of them. Their enemies, however, are extremely numerous. All the monst rs of the deep find them an easy prey ; and, in addition to these, th ^immense flocks of sea-fowl that inhabit the polar regions, watch their outset, and spread devastation... | |
| Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 408 pages
...supposed to equal the dimensions of Great Britain and Ireland. This mass is subdivided into numberless columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, followed by great coveys of sea-fowl, and perceptible by the rippling of the water and a brilliant... | |
| John Bowles Daly - 1889 - 262 pages
...approaching, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into columns of five or six miles in length and three or four broad, while the water before it curls up as if forced out of its bed. Naturalists fail to discover... | |
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