| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 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. The first i-ln'ik this army meets in... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...sides. In their outset, this immense swarm of living creatures is divided into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and in their progress they even make the water ripple before them. In the month of June they are found... | |
| 1830 - 188 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... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 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 before them curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
| William Smellie - 1832 - 348 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... | |
| Henry William Dewhurst - 1834 - 378 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 in breadth ; while the water curls up as the herrings advance, appearing as if forced from its bed. Sometimes... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1835 - 318 pages
...coming !" increased as the shoal advanced to the land. It was divided into three columns, of at least five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, each of which drove the water before them with a sort of rippling current. They occasionally disappeared... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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