 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 lehte
...view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying, with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and...bringing down several individuals. From right to left, far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 372 lehte
...them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals. From right to left, far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally crowded. Curious to determine how long this appearance would continue, I took out... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 lehte
...view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying, with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and...bringing down several individuals. From right to left, far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 lehte
...their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot, and several strata deep, and so close together, that could...reached them, one discharge could not have failed in bringing down several individuals. From right to left as far as the eye could reach, the breadth... | |
 | 1846 - 872 lehte
...rapidity, at a height 378 beyond gun-shot, in several ranks deep, and so close together, that, could a shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several of them. From right to left, as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1842 - 438 lehte
...the space occupied by them. Wilson speaks of them as flying so closely together, that, if shot could have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals ; and there appeared to be many strata of them, one over the other. From right to left, as far as the... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 lehte
...view, I was astonished at their appearance ; they were flying, with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and...one discharge could not have failed of bringing down many of them. From right to left, as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession... | |
 | William Jardine, P. J. Selby - 1850 - 370 lehte
...view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and...breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally crowded. Curious to determine how long this appearance would continue, I took out... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd, John Nyren - 1852 - 626 lehte
...he had a good view of a flight. He says ' they were flying, with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep ; and...reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seemingly everywhere equally crowded. Curious to determine how long this appearance would continue,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1852 - 410 lehte
...had a good view of a flight. He says ' they were flying, •with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep; and...reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seemingly everywhere equally crowded. Curious to determine how long this appearance would continue,... | |
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I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and so close together, that, could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down... 
