 | 1814 - 644 דפים
...by .inch a number of the sooty Petrel* as •we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred...their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour anil a half, this stream of Petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior... | |
 | 1830 - 388 דפים
...scattered, batfiying as compactly as a free moTement of their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hoar and a half this stream of petrels continued to pass...swiftness of the pigeon. Taking the stream to have been 50 yards deep and 300 ia breadth, and that it moved at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and allowing nine... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 דפים
...joy of the ship's company ; near Van Diemen's land. " There was a stream (of sooty Petrels) of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred...flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings secmed to allow, and during nfn|l hour and a half, this stream of Petrels continued to pass without... | |
 | John Gould - 1848 - 162 דפים
...followed by such a number of the sooty petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred...more in breadth ; the birds were not scattered, but were flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour... | |
 | 1852 - 620 דפים
...50 to 80 yards in depth, and of 300 yards or more in breadth, the birds were not scattered, but were flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation, I think the number could not have been less than a hundred millions. Taking... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 366 דפים
...says that when near the northwest extremity of Van Diemen's Land he saw a stream of sooty petrels from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred...wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour and a-half this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior to... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 406 דפים
...speaks thus of what he saw near Van Diemen's land. " There was a stream (of sooty petrels) of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred...more in breadth; the birds were not scattered, but Aurora Borealis. The officers on watch observed the shifting and changing of these lights for three... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 370 דפים
...flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow; and during a full hour and a-half this stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption,...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation he thought the number could not have been less than a hundred millions. This... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 364 דפים
...compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour and a-halft\iis stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption,...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation he thought the number could not have been less than a hundred millions. This... | |
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Petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth, and of three hundred yards, or more, in breadth; the birds were not scattered but flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow;... 
