 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...which comes 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
...which comes 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 ;...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
...comes in 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 ;...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... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...which comes 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 :...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,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...arrives ¡n June: the first is attended by large bodies of ganéis and other birds which accompany to prey on them, but when the main body approaches,...such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. This body is divided into distinct columns of live, or six miles ¡n length and three or four in breadth,... | |
 | 1820 - 188 pages
...greedy attendants, the gannel, the gull, the shark, and the porpoise. When the main body is arrived, its breadth and depth is such, as to alter the very...of five or six miles in length, and three or four broad; while the water before them, curls up, as if forced out of ils bed. Sometimes they sink for... | |
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... 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. 
