 Gannets and others, which follow to prey on them : but when the main body approaches, its 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,...  A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 140by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...no account. The breadth and depth of the main body is such as to alter the appearance of ttie 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... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...bodies of ganéis and other birds which accompany to prey on them, but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. This body is divided into distinct columns of live, or six miles ¡n length and three or four in breadth,... | |
 | 1820 - 188 pages
...June ; whilst its arrival is easily announced, by the number of its greedy attendants, the gannel, the gull, the shark, and the porpoise. When the main...in length, and three or four broad; while the water before them, curls up, as if forced out of ils bed. Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or fifteen... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...of no account. The breadth and depth 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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 pages
...birds, such as gannets and others, which follow to prey on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 pages
...America, 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... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...birds, such as gannets and others, which follow to prey on them: but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct co-- lumns of five or six miles in length,-and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...the main body approaches, its breadth and its 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 foftr in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling : sometimes they sink... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...so black with them to a great distance, that the number seems inexhaustible. There the porpoise and the shark continue their depredations, and the birds...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... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1824 - 638 pages
...birds, iuch at Gannets and others, which follow to prey on them. But when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very...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." Shaw's Zoology t tot. V.-... | |
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