 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 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 iu breadth, till they reach the Shetland islands, whicH they generally do about the end of April, is... | |
 | Callum Roberts - 2007 - 457 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannet, the gull, the shark and the porpess. 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 the... | |
 | 1867 - 566 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... | |
 | 1823 - 434 pages
...neighbourhood of Montrose alone. Leuwenhoek counted 9,384,000 eggs in a cod-fish of a middling size. the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five...six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. A similar multiplication of pilchards may be inferred from the enormous quantities which annually visit... | |
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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. 
