| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 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 their motion causes a strong rippling in the water. Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or... | |
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| 1856 - 846 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, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they sink for the space of... | |
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