 | William Smellie - 1851 - 376 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannet, 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 its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | Natural history - 1854 - 322 pages
...of the grand shoal that arrives in June. When this main body is arrived, its breadth and depth are such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean....of five or six miles in length, and three or four broad. Sometimes they sink for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, then rise again to the surface... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pages
...of no account. The breath 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 of... | |
 | HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E. - 1855 - 602 pages
...the main body approaches, its breadth and its depth are such as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns, of five...drive the water before them with a kind of rippling. v Sometimes they sink for ten* or fifteen minutes, then rise again to the surface, and, in bright weather,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 478 pages
...appearance in the northern parts of Scotland about June. This most valuable fish arrives in enormous shoals, five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth. Their advent is heralded by various sea birds, such as the gannets and gulls, which constantly hover... | |
 | 1856 - 770 pages
...and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct colunms of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive tho water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space of ten or fifteen... | |
 | 1856 - 642 pages
...depth are 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.' The very minuteness of this statement of a general fact is sufficient to excite suspicion. Ho goes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull, the shark, and the porpoise. When themain 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 its bed. Sometimes they sink for the... | |
 | 1857 - 330 pages
...and May, but these are only the forerunners of the grand shoal which comes in June. This shoal is in columns of five or six miles in length and three or...water before them with a kind of rippling; sometimes sinking for ten or fifteen minutes, and then rising again. The great shoal in its southward course... | |
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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. 
