 | 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 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...herring is derived from the German hter, an army, to express " their numbers. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six " miles in length, and three or four in breadth." The same author, in his Tour in Scotland, 1772, 2d edit. p. 373, 374, observes farther : " In a fine... | |
 | 1814 - 1032 pages
...from the Straits of Beliisle to Cape Halteras : 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... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It i - divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and they drire the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink for the spict of... | |
 | C. H. Kauffman - 1815 - 460 pages
...breadth and 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 four in breadth; and they drive the water before them, with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...spawn in Warmer latitudes. The grand shoal does not appear till June. It is so large that it is divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, sinking and rising in the ocean, and exhibiting, in bright weather the most beautiful resplendency... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 498 pages
...breadth and depth is 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 broad; while the water Tiefore them curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
 | 1856 - 838 pages
...breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocenn. 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... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of ttie Very ocean ; it is divided into distinct columns of five or 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...of the main body 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 four in breadth, driving the water before them with a very perceptible rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
