| Edward Hazen - 1836 - 462 pages
...they alter the appearance of the ocean itself. In this last and principal migration, the shoals are five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and before each of these columns the water is driven in a kind of ripple : sometimes, the fish sink... | |
| Thomas Gisborne - 1838 - 184 pages
...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... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 pages
...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 in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...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 in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling; sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
| Isaac Taylor - 1839 - 462 pages
...this shoal is 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, dividing the water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes they sink, for the space often or... | |
| 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... | |
| 1840 - 272 pages
...breadth and dopth arc 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... | |
| 1840 - 274 pages
...breadth and 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 they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling: sometimes they sink, for the space of... | |
| 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... | |
| Charles Ellms - 1841 - 606 pages
...navigators. But more recent observations have ascertained that, instead of a shoal, it is a low island, about five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, lying in 22° 28" south latitude, and 40° 51" east longitude. Many trees grow upon it, and the western... | |
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