 | 1776 - 502 pagine
...weft fide of Chichefter is a large Roman camp called the Brill. It is an oblong iquare, being about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It lies in a flat low ground, with a great rampart and a fingle graff, and is generally thought to... | |
 | 1789 - 376 pagine
...more bpautiful. The mountains here approach nearer the houfe, between two of which 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, thro' which runs a rocky and founding... | |
 | 560 pagine
...the greyhounds were slipped. The paddock was usually a piece of ground paled in within a park, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. At the farther end the spectators took up their station, while at the starting-post were houses for... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1796 - 682 pagine
...may probably prove a valuable mine. There are 6 lakes in the parifh, the largeft of which does iiot exceed half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile...in breadth. Thefe lie in the moor-land part of the parifh, and contribute to render that a chearful profpe£r, which would otherwife be bleak and dull.... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 978 pagine
...fori'jt, Nortbtimbcrlaad, in the SW. part of the county. LOWES WATER, a lake of Curab«rland, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is a molt romantic (pot, the oppoftM Ihoree beine rivals in beauty of hanging wood«, íittlr groves,... | |
 | 1808 - 1016 pagine
...a pleasing melancholy. Loch Tarjioch is situated in a plain at the head of Gkn Earsay. It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The banks of the loch are surrounded with blocks of granite, and its beach is composed of granitic... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Antonio de Alcedo - 1814 - 654 pagine
...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... | |
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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. 
