...the sands of the sea. On commencing their emigration the swarms divide into distinct columns, each five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth. Their course is made visible to an observer by the ripple which they cause in the water. They reach the Shetland...

...arctic sea, and migrate southwards in such quantities, as to alter the very appearance of the sea, being divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four miles in breadth. — This living tide moots in its progress the British Islands, and is thus divided...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...