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" Sometimes they sink for the space of ten or fifteen minutes, then rise again to the surface; and, in bright weather, reflect a variety of splendid colours, like a field bespangled with purple, gold, and azure. "
Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy ... - Page 163
by William Bingley - 1803
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Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: Cornwall

George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 308 pages
...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,...
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Letters written during a tour through South Wales

John Evans - 1804 - 482 pages
...upon them as they 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...
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Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States ..., Volume 1

John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pages
...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...
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Observations upon the town of Cromer ... as a watering place, and ... its ...

Edmund Bartell - 1806 - 176 pages
...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...
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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ...

Robert Forsyth - 1808 - 600 pages
...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...
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Observations on a Tour Through the Highlands and Part of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 pages
...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...
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Walks in a forest: or, Poems descriptive of scenery of a forest [by T ...

Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...Lo! gannets huge " herring is derived from the German hter, an army, to express " their numbers. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six " miles in length, and three or four in breadth." The same author, in his Tour in Scotland, 1772, 2d edit. p. 373, 374, observes farther : " In a fine...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10

1813 - 1102 pages
...America, 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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 9

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...America, from the Straits of Bellisle 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 the Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 76

1814 - 1032 pages
...America, from the Straits of Beliisle to Cape Halteras : 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 the Shetland islands, which they generally do about the end of April, is there subdivided...
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