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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ... - Page 379
by Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 547 pages
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The Farmers' Register, Volume 6

Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 pages
...breadth and depth are 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, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space of...
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An Enquiry Respecting Love: As One of the Divine Attributes

Thomas Gisborne - 1838 - 184 pages
...breadth and its depth are 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. 1 See the sky curtained by locusts. View the living inundation of the lemings. Expose to a powerful...
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The Farmers' Register, A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of ...

Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...breadth and depth are 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, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling; sometimes they sink for the space of...
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Scenes of Commerce, by Land and Sea; Or, "Where Does it Come From ..., Part 325

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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16

1840 - 272 pages
...breadth and dopth arc 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...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16

1840 - 274 pages
...breadth and depth are 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...
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Mitchell's Geographical Reader: A System of Modern Geography, Comprising a ...

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...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Volume 2

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...
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The Tragedy of the Seas; Or, Sorrow on the Ocean, Lake, and River, from ...

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...
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Scenes in Foreign Lands: From the Portfolio and Journal of a Traveller in ...

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...
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