 | 1819 - 188 pages
...no account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of ttie Very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five...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
...greedy attendants, the gannel, the gull, the shark, and the porpoise. When the main body is arrived, its breadth and depth is such, as to alter the very...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...of no account. The breadth 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...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...America, from 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... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...the main body approaches, its breadth and its 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 foftr in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink... | |
 | 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 - 638 pages
...marked by certain signs, by the number of birds, iuch at Gannets and others, which follow to prey on them. But when the main body approaches, its breadth...drive the water before them with a kind of rippling." Shaw's Zoology t tot. V.- part I. p. 160. Limit 1804. [2) Exodus xiii. 13. Numbers xi. 31. is also... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 630 pages
...the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the oceau. It is divided into distinct columns, of five or six...breadth ; and they drive the water before them with a kin J of rippling." Shaw's Zoology, ml. V. part I. p. 160. Land. 1804. 12) Exodus xiii. 13. Numbers... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 636 pages
...such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct columns, of fire nr six miles in length, and three or four in breadth...drive the water before them with a kind of rippling." Share's Zoology, Ml. V. parti, f. ISO. Land. 1804. (2) Exodus xiii. 13. Numbers xi.31. is also a sort... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pages
...America, from 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... | |
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... 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. 
