 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
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...others, which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth are such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean....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... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1838 - 184 pages
...the isles of Shetland. " Its 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... | |
 | 1840 - 274 pages
...them. When the main body appears, its 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... | |
 | 1840 - 272 pages
...them. When the main body appears, its 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pages
...When the main body advances, its 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... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...come to prey upon them. When the main body appears, its breadth and depth are such as to alter the appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct...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 Smellie - 1851 - 376 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 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...length, and three or four broad ; while the water before them curls up, as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or fifteen... | |
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