| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 страници
...witnessed. Coming to an opening, by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were...bringing down several individuals. From right to left, far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 страници
...witnessed. Coming to an opening, by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were...bringing down several individuals. From right to left, far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally... | |
| Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 страници
...witnessed; coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were...steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot, and several strata deep, and so close together, that could shot have reached them, one discharge could... | |
| 1846 - 872 страници
...— " Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance; they were...flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height 378 beyond gun-shot, in several ranks deep, and so close together, that, could a shot have reached... | |
| William Chambers - 1842 - 438 страници
...the space occupied by them. Wilson speaks of them as flying so closely together, that, if shot could have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals ; and there appeared to be many strata of them, one over the other. From right to left, as far as the... | |
| William Dowling - 1849 - 356 страници
...witnessed. Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterupted view, I was astonished at their appearance ; they...one discharge could not have failed of bringing down many of them. From right to left, as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 страници
...: M Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Beneou, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance; they were...strata deep, and so close together that, could shot hare reached them, one discharge could not hare failed of bringing down several individuals. From right... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 страници
...their appearance; ti» y were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gnn-shot, in several strata deep, and so close together that, could shot have reached them, one discharge conld not have failed of bringing down several individuals. From right to left, as far as the eye could... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 832 страници
...witnessed. " Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance ; they were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, and at a height beyond gun-shot, in several strata deep, and so close together that, could shot have... | |
| John George Wood - 1862 - 804 страници
...numbers as I never before had witnessed. Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying...together that could shot have reached them, one discharge would not have failed of bringing down several individuals. From right to left, as far as the eye could... | |
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