 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 were flying as compactly as a free movement of their wings seemed to allow ; and during a full hour and a half...  Handbook to The Birds of Australia - Seite 446von John Gould - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1814 - 644 Seiten
...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 ; and during a full hour anil a half, this stream of Petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior... | |
 | Robert Mudie - 1829 - 464 Seiten
...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...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. * * * Taking the stream to have been fifty yards deep, and three hundred in breadth, and that it moved... | |
 | 1830 - 388 Seiten
...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...rate little inferior to the 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... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 Seiten
...scattered, but 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...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. Taking the stream to have been fifty yards decp, and three hundred in breadth, and that it moved at... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 Seiten
...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...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. Taking the stream to have been fifty yards deep, and three hundred in breadth, and that it moved at... | |
 | 1815 - 560 Seiten
...nearly eighty yards in depth and three hundred or more in breadth ; and it passed for an hour anda half without interruption, at a rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. ' Taking the stream to have been only fifty yards deep by three hun.dred in width and that it moved... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 370 Seiten
...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,...swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation he thought the number could not have been less than a hundred millions. This bird burrows in the ground,... | |
 | John West - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...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 ; and during a full hour and a-halft\iis stream of petrels continued to pass without interruption, at a rate little inferior to... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 710 Seiten
...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...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. Taking the stream to have been fifty yards deep by three hundred in width, and that it moved at the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1914 - 614 Seiten
...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...interruption at a rate little inferior to the swiftness of a pigeon. On the lowest computation I think the number could not have been less than a hundred millions."... | |
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