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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;... "
The Picture of Australia: Exhibiting New Holland, Van Diemen's Land, and All ... - Page 25
by Robert Mudie - 1829 - 370 pages
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The Literary Panorama and National Register, Volume 1

English literature - 1814 - 644 pages
...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...rate little inferior to the swiftness of the pigeon. On the lowest computation, I think the number could not linve been less than a hundred millions; and...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 4-6

1830 - 388 pages
...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...
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Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns

Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...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...pigeon. Taking the stream to have been fifty yards decp, and three hundred in breadth, and that it moved at a rate of thirty miles an hour, aud allowing...
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The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most ...

Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...litter, one morning, to the general joy of the ship's company ; near Van Diemcn's land. " There was a stream (of sooty Petrels) of from fifty to eighty...and three hundred in breadth, and that it moved at a rate of thirty miles an hour, and allowing nine cubic yards of space to each bird, the number would...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 89

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 570 pages
...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...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;...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 12

1815 - 560 pages
...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...swiftness of the pigeon. ' Taking the stream to have been only fifty yards deep by three hun.dred in width and that it moved at the rate of thirty miles an hour,...
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An Introduction to the Birds of Australia

John Gould - Australia - 1848 - 162 pages
...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...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...
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The North British review

1852 - 620 pages
...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...
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The History of Tasmania, Volume 1

John West - Aboriginal Tasmanians - 1852 - 370 pages
...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...
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The History of Tasmania, Volume 1

John West - Aboriginal Tasmanians - 1852 - 364 pages
...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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