| Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...in June, and their appearance is marked by certain figns by the numbers of birds, fuch as gannets, and others which follow to prey on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth and its depth is £uch as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into diftina: columns... | |
| 1795 - 460 pages
...in June : and their appearance is marked by certain figns, by the number of birds, fuch as gannets and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when...the main body approaches, Its breadth and depth is fuch as to alter the •appearance of the very ocean. It is divided intodiftiiidt columns oi five or... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...June : and their appearance is marked by certain figus, by the numbers of bird«, fuch as gannet» and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth i* fuch as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into dUtinct columns of five or... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...June : and their appearance Is marked by uv certain íigns, by the numbers of birds, fuch as gannets and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when...the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is fuch as to alter the apoearance of the very ocean. It is divided into dillincl columns of five or fix... | |
| George Woods - 1811 - 396 pages
...appearance is chiefly marked by the number of birds, such as gannets and gulls, which follow and prey upon them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth...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... | |
| George Woods - 1811 - 394 pages
...appearance is chiefly marked by the number of birds, such as gannets and gulls, which follow and prey upon them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth...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... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...in June, and their appearance is marked by certain signs, by the numbers of birds, snch as gannets and others, which follow to prey on them : but when...such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It i - divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and... | |
| C. H. Kauffman - 1815 - 460 pages
...by certain signs, such as the numbers of birds, like gannets and others, which follow to prey upon them: but when the main body approaches, its breadth and depth is such, as to alter the appearance of the very ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and... | |
| 1856 - 838 pages
...the number of birds, such as gounets and others, which follow to prey on them ; but when tho ruaiu body approaches, its breadth and depth is such as to alter the very appearance of the ocenn. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth,... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...marked by certain signs, by the numbers of birds, such as gannets and others, which follow to pr'-r on them : but when the main body approaches, its breadth...such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It i> divided into distinct columns of fire or iix miles in length TOL. T. 1 u and three or four in breadth,... | |
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