 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 pages
...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, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 pages
...thousandth part ; and when the main body approaches the coast, it is generally divided into distinct colums of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ! Vast shoals of Pilchards (a small species of Herring) appear about the middle of July, off the coast... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 630 pages
...breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the oceau. 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 kin J of rippling." Shaw's Zoology, ml. V. part I. p.... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...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, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink for the space often... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...the sands of the sea. On commencing their emigration the swarms divide into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. Their course is made visible to an observer by the ripple which they cause in the water. They reach... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
