 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 pages
...a considerable quantity of marl and of moss, which in this inland district is used for fuel. About a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, of a lake still remains, of from two to twenty-two feet deep in summer. Marl has been dragged out of... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1808 - 338 pages
...beautiful. The mountains here approach nearer the houfe; and between two of them runs a valley about a mile in length ; and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The fides and bottom of this valley are wholly filled with wood, through which winds a rocky and founding... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1809 - 270 pages
...pafled. The ruins of Abbey Crucis, which gives name to the vale, ftand at one end of a flat meadow, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is bounded on one fide by a mountain-ridge, with little variety of line, fave what it receives from... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1811 - 804 pages
...ground andv, country about it. Half a mile eaft of the city is a fmall hill, improved by art ; it is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile broad, and is very fteep every way,, except to the fouth weft ; this was probably the camp of the befiegers,... | |
 | Antonio de Alcedo - 1814 - 654 pages
...Pensacola, the capital of W. Florida, lies along the beach of the bay, is of an oblong form, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It contains several hundred habitations, and many of the public buildings and houses arc spacious and... | |
 | John Campbell - 1815 - 640 pages
...After tea we ascended one of the hills, to have a complete view of the whole settlement, which is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth: the gardens being so numerous, the whole resembled a city in a wood. I viewed it as a garden of the... | |
 | 1817 - 244 pages
...western side of Pendennis-castle, and between, the parishes of Budock and Falmouth, is a small lake, about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile ia breadth, called the SwanPool, which is remarkable for fine eels. It is separatea from the sea by... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - 1818 - 378 pages
...Pensacola, is in 30° 28' north latitude, and 87° 12' west longitude. The city is of an oblong form, about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, delightfully placed, and accounted a very healthy place. The entrance into the bay is fortified by... | |
 | Abraham Rees - 1819 - 754 pages
...Lochamancairn. In the parifh of Strathblane are fix lakes; the largeft of them, however, does not exceed half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth ; but they ferve to bellow a degree of livelinefs upon a defolate region. In the pariih of Kilfyth,... | |
 | 1820 - 746 pages
...N. and longitude 58. 12. W. steering west, going six knots, observed a shoal on the larboard beam, about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, bearing south, half a mile distant, in appearance white sand and yellow weed, supposed to be the Longshamps... | |
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Ninora-Tal. which is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth when full, but less than half of that width in the dry season. 
