 | 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 together... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1836 - 188 pages
...as the grains of sand. When they begin to migrate, they divide into distinct columns or shoals, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. They reach the Shetland islands.in June or July, and after coasting the shores of Britain, in two large... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1836 - 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, driving the water before them with a kind of rippling. Sometimes, they sink for the space of ten or... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1838 - 184 pages
...the isles of Shetland. " Its breadth and its depth are 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. 1 See the sky curtained by locusts. View the living inundation of the lemings. Expose to a powerful... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1841 - 352 pages
...abounds. The great shoal becomes straitened for room in the narrow seas ; it then separates into columns, five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth — some of these traverse the English Channel, some the Irish, and others fill the bays of northern... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pages
...When the main body advances, its breadth and depth are such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five...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 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 ; and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling. 
