 | Hunting - 1819 - 424 pages
...yard ef this moving body comprehended three Pigeons; the square yard in the whole space multiplied by three, would give two thousand two hundred and...Pigeons ! An almost inconceivable multitude, and yet prpbably far below the actual amount. Computing each of tb •sito consume half a pint of mast daily,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yard in the whole space, multiplied by three, would give two thousand two hundred and...seventy-two thousand pigeons! an almost inconceivable multitade, and yet, probably, far below the actual amount. Computing each of these to consume half... | |
 | John Howison - New York (State) - 1821 - 366 pages
...length about two hundred and forty miles. According to his moderate estimate, this flock contained two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventy-two thousand pigeons — a number altogether inconceivable, and almost beyond belief were we not in possession of indisputable... | |
 | John Howison - New York (State) - 1821 - 384 pages
...length about two hundred and forty miles. According to his moderate estimate, this flock contained two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventy-two thousand pigeons—a number altogether inconceivable, and almost beyond belief, were we not in possession of... | |
 | John Howison - New York (State) - 1822 - 364 pages
...length about two hundred and forty miles. According to his moderate estimate, this flock contained two thousand two hundred and thirty millions two hundred and seventy-two thousand pigeons — a number altogether inconceivable, and almost beyond belief, were we not in possession of indisputable... | |
 | 1823 - 602 pages
...length about two hundred and forty miles. According to his moderate estimate, this flock contained two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventy-two thousand pigeons — a number altogether inconceivable, and almost beyond belief, were we not in possession of indisputable... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 608 pages
...length about two hundred and forty miles. According to his moderate estimate, this flock contained two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventy-two thousand pigeons — a number altogether inconceivable, and almost beyond belief, were we not in possession of indisputable... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Cyclopaedias - 1831 - 484 pages
...yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons, the square yards in the whole square multiplied by three, would give two thousand two hundred and...amount. Computing each of these to consume half a pmtof mast daily, the whole quantity, at this rate, would equal seventeen millions, four hundred and... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - America - 1832 - 462 pages
...240 miles in length, and to have contained (three birds being assigned to every square yard) at least two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, two hundred and seventytwo thousand pigeons !* Mr Audubon confirms his predecessor's account by a narrative still more extraordinary,t and adds,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...comprehended three pigeons, the square yards multiplied by 3, would give 2,230,272,000, ' that is, two thousand two hundred and thirty millions two hundred and seventy-two thousand, nearly three time« the number of all the human inhabitants of the globe, but which Mr. Wilson reckons... | |
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... more, and that it moved at the rate of one mile in a minute, four hours, the time it continued passing, would make its whole length two hundred and forty miles. Again, supposing that each square yard of this moving body comprehended three pigeons,... 
