 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...increased by the breaking down of the weirs on the river Brusua, below the junction of the bog river. I shall now describe the present appearance and state...from the original surface of the bog, to the depth of 20 feet, where the eruption first took place. In this valley or gulf there are numberless concentric... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 458 pages
...forms the banks of the Tweed, near Sunderland-hall. This plain is called Philiphaugh:• it is about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile broad; and, being defended, to the northward, by the high hills which separate Tweed from Yarrow, by... | |
 | Scottish border - 1812 - 516 pages
...forms the banks of the Tweed, 19 near Sunderland-hall. This plain is called Philiphaugb : * it is about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile broad ; and, being defended, to the northward, by the high hills which separate Tweed from Yarrow,... | |
 | 1814 - 572 pages
...town of Mosambique occupies the central part of a small island of the same name, measurmg two miles and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, and lying across the mouth of a deep bay ; at the bottom of which, on a peninsula projecting from the... | |
 | 1814 - 578 pages
...town of Mosambique occupies the central part of a small island of the same name, measuring two miles and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, and lying across the mouth of a deep bay ; at the bottom of which, on a peninsula projecting from the... | |
 | Henry Salt - 1816 - 468 pages
...the same name situated directly across the mouth of a deep bay. This island measures about two miles and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, resembling in shape a crescent with its hollow part towards the sea. The landing place is about a musket... | |
 | 1823 - 792 pages
...bog river. " I shall now describe the present appearance and state of the bog and moory valley. 41 In the centre of the bog, for the space of about a...from the original surface of the bog, to the depth of SO feet, where the eruption first took place. In this valley or gulf, there are numberless concentric... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 786 pages
...present appearance and state of the bog and moory valley. " In the centre of the bog, for the «pace of about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, a valley has been formed, eloping at the bottom from the original surface of the bog, to the depth of 30 feet, where the eruption... | |
 | 1825 - 704 pages
...possessions in that quarter of the world. It is situated on an island of the same name, about two miles and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The government-house is handsome, but the settlement retains few traces of its former importance. The... | |
 | John Robinson - 1833 - 78 pages
...vale of Buttermere contains the lake called by the same name. This lake is small, being only about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is of an oblong form, and at one end sweeps around a woody promontory. The scenery about it is grand... | |
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it is about a mile and a half in length, and a quarter of a mile broad ; and being defended, to the northward, by the... 
