 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...great • Nat. Hist, of Norway, vol. ii, p. 201 distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head...plunged violently under water. Certain that he was in chace of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...Nat. Hist. «f Norway, veL ii, p. 203•- 38 distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head...plunged violently under water. Certain that he was in chace of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...the animal, I steered so as to be at no great distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head,...chase of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high as we conveniently could, we saw it coming rapidly under... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 618 pages
...great distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directmg its head, which still continued above water, towards...chase of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high as we conveniently could, we saw it coming rapidly under... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...the animal, I steered so as to be at no great distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head,...chase of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high as we conveniently could, we saw it coming rapidly under... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Zoology - 1839 - 414 pages
...worthy secretary of the Wernerian Society : — " I saw the animal of which you enquire in June 1 808, on the coast of Coll. Rowing along that coast, I observed,...station as high as we conveniently could, we saw it coming rapidly under water towards the stern of our boat. When within a few yards of it, finding the... | |
 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - Natural history - 1839 - 916 pages
...the animal, I steered so as to be at no great distance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster directing its head (which...plunged violently under water. Certain that he was in chacc of us, we plied hard to get ashore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high... | |
 | John Milford - Fishing - 1842 - 352 pages
...the animal, I steered so as to be at no great distance from the shore. When nearly in aline betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head, which still continued above the water, towards us, plunged violently under water. Certain that he was in chase of us, we plied... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...the animal, I steered so as to be at no great dislance from the shore. When nearly in a line betwixt it and the shore, the monster, directing its head,...Certain that he was in chase of us we plied hard to get nshore. Just as we leaped out on a rock, taking a station as high as we conveniently could, we saw... | |
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Then I saw it elevated considerably above the level of the sea, and, after a slow movement, distinctly perceived one of its eyes. Alarmed at the unusual appearance and magnitude of the animal, I steered so as to be at no great distance from the shore.... 
