 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - Florida - 1868 - 148 pages
...way. The town is fortified with, an entrenchment, salient angles and redoubts, which inclose^ about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. The inhabitants and garrison, men, women and children,, amount to above two thousand five hundred.... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 558 pages
...easy ascent. It terminates in the ' Windmill Hill Flats,' or plateau, a tolerably level plain about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. At its northern border the surface of this plateau is about 400 feet above the sea, or 1,000 feet below... | |
 | Anthropology - 1869 - 1080 pages
...easy ascent. It terminates in the ' Windmill Hill Flats,' or plateau, a tolerably level plain about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. At its northern border the surface of this plateau is about 400 feet above the sea, or 1,000 feet below... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1870 - 588 pages
...Lake Tanpo, in the province of Auckland, New Zealand, lies Eotomahana, a lake only three-quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, yet containing points of the greatest interest and beauty. Springs of boiling water rise in the centre... | |
 | 1870 - 586 pages
...Lake Tanpo, in the province of Auckland, New Zealand, lies Kotonialiana, a lake only three-quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, yet containing points of the greatest interest and beauty. Springs of boiling water rise in the centre... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 626 pages
...The village is situated at the south-east corner of the Khajur-Sdgar or Ninora-Tdl, 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. The village is surrounded on all sides... | |
 | David Landsborough - Arran (Scotland) - 1875 - 510 pages
...Drosera Anglica, and the more' common Drosera rotundifolia. I came at last to a mountain lake, more than a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. As I had no map of the island, I knew not what it was, but I was much struck with the utter loneliness... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1876 - 774 pages
...country, and nearly 2,000 feet above the sea. The summit is a flat oblong, and is said by Porter to be half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. I should have hardly thought it so large ; but his figures, which were no doubt written on the spot,... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - India - 1876 - 356 pages
...vigour. Candy, the largest inland town in Ceylon, is built on the shore of an artificial lake, over a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, which stands at an elevation of 1678 feet above the sea. Here the governor and most of the leading... | |
 | Samuel Truesdale Livermore - Block Island (R.I. : Island) - 1877 - 382 pages
...sand drifting past your feet like water gliding over a smooth surface, and then look upon a surface a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, thus moving to the sea whose receding waves and surf carry off the sand as fast as it is deposited.... | |
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The town is fortified with an entrenchment, salient angles, and redoubts, which inclose about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. 
