 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 ページ
...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 Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 ページ
...Iceland about the beginning of March, in a close phalanx of suqirising depth, and such extent, that the surface is supposed to equal the dimensions of...perceivable by the rippling of the water, and a brilliant reflection iikt that of a rainbow. In April or May the vanguard of those allotted to the British dominions... | |
 | John Evans - 1804 - 478 ページ
...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... | |
 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 ページ
...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 ripple before them. They are found about Shetland in... | |
 | Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 ページ
...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, 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 - 600 ページ
...occupying a surface 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 ; each division or column being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings... | |
 | 1810 - 312 ページ
...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 ページ
...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, and three or four in breadth; each division, or column, being led, according to the idea of the most experienced fishermen, by herrings... | |
 | George Woods - 1811 - 396 ページ
...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 - 662 ページ
...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... | |
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... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth... 
