 | Dictionary - 1844 - 412 pages
...southwards, is from the Shetland Islands, which divide it into two parts ; one wing takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain,...fill every bay and creek with their numbers ; the former proceed towards Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart for herrings ; they then pass through the... | |
 | William Smellie - 1851 - 376 pages
...Shetland Islands. Here the shoal divides into two branches. One branch skirts the eastern, and the other the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers. Those which proceed to the west from Shetland, after visiting the Hebrides, where the great fishery... | |
 | Treasury - 1854 - 278 pages
...southward, is from the Shetland Isles, which divide it into two parts. One wing takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain,...and fill every bay and creek with their numbers. The former proceed towards Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart of herrings ; they then pass through the... | |
 | Lambton J. H. Young - 1865 - 282 pages
...Here it is divided into two parts, one wing of those destined to visit our coasts takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek * Pennant, in another part of his account, says the herrings continue on the Welsh coast till February... | |
 | Edward T. Blakely - 1878 - 506 pages
...Islands, which divide it into two parts : one wing takes to the eastern, the other to the western shore of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers. The former proceed towards Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart for herrings; they then pass through the... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 534 pages
...precious gems. The shoals which visit the British seas pass down both coast lines; one portion takes to the eastern, the other to the western shores of...and fill every bay and creek with their numbers: the former proceed towards Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart of herrings; they then pass through the... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1886 - 344 pages
...southwards is from the Shetland Isles, which divide it into two parts ; one wing takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers ; others pass on towards Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart of herrings ; they then pass through... | |
 | 1856 - 846 pages
...march southward is from the Shetland Isles, which divide it into two parte; one wing takes to tho cast, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers : others pass on towards "Yarmouth, the great and ancient mart of herrings ; they then pass through... | |
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The first check this army meets in its march southward, is from the Shetland Isles, which divide it into two parts ; one wing takes to the east, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers ; others... 
