 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 pagina’s
...their main hody 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 pagina’s
...devastation on all 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... | |
 | John Evans - 1804 - 482 pagina’s
...proceed. Such is the effect of a shoal, that they change the colour of the ocean ; divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, driving the waves before them with a rippling noise : at times they sink for some minutes, then suddenly... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pagina’s
...supposed to equal 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 pagina’s
...close13 ness, occupying a surface, equal at least to the dimensions of Great-Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length,...ordinary size, older, perhaps, than the others, and having mad« a considerable number of voyages, may be capable of conducting their different bands to... | |
 | 1810 - 312 pagina’s
...to make a 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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 pagina’s
...closeness, occupying a surface, equal at least to the dimensions of both Great Britain and Ireland, but subdivided into columns of five or six miles in length,...ordinary size, older perhaps than the others, and having made a considerable number of voyages, may be capable of conducting their different bands to... | |
 | George Woods - 1811 - 396 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Woods - 1811 - 396 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 pagina’s
...from the Straits of Lkllisle 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 tlie Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
