 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pages
...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, and their motion causes a strong rippling in the water. Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 1857 - 330 pages
...these are only the forerunners of the grand shoal which comes in June. This shoal is in 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 sinking for ten or fifteen... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...sides. In their outset, this immense swarm of 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 the water ripple before them. In the month of June they are found... | |
 | Robert Hamilton - 1876 - 586 pages
...altering, on its approach, 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 tho water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes they sink for ten or fifteen... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
