 | 1813 - 1102 pages
...from the Straits of Lkllisle 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 tlie 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...their 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... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...But, when the main body arrives, its |nvadth and depth are so great, as to change the ap«e;»rance of the ocean itself'. The shoal is generally divided into columns of five or six miles in length, three or four in breadth. Their progressive motion creates a kind of rippling or small undulations... | |
 | 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... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
