 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 страници
...approaches from the north, it alters the very appearance of the ocean : St is divided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, which drive the water hefore them with a sort of ripling current. Sometimes they sink for a short space,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 страници
...sides. In their outset, this immense swarm of living creatures is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and in their progress they make even the water Cripple up before them. They are found about Shetland in June, from whence they... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 страници
...the dimensions of Great Britain and Ireland. They are however subdivided into numberless columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, followed by numerous sea fowl, and perceivable by the rippling of the water, and a brilliant reflection... | |
 | Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 страници
...surface, equal at least to the dimensions of Great-Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth; each division, or column, being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 598 страници
...equal at least to the dimensions of both Great Britain and Ireland, and subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth 5 each division or column being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings... | |
 | 1810 - 312 страници
...visible alteration in the appearance of the ocean. It is generally divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth ; and the water curls up before ¿hem as if forced out of its bed. Sometimes the whole column, sinks for... | |
 | George Woods - 1811 - 394 страници
...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 ripplirg. Sometimes they sink for the space of ten... | |
 | George Woods - 1811 - 396 страници
...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 ten... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 страници
...equal at least to the dimensions of both Great Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth; each division, or column, being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 страници
...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... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
