| Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 pagine
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
| John Moore - 1781 - 542 pagine
...The Campagna is an uninhabited plaid, furrounding the city of Rome, bounded on one fide by the fea, and on the other by an amphitheatre of hills, crowned with towns, villages, and villas, which form the fineft landfcapes that can be imagined. The ancient Romans were wont to feek fhelter from the fcorching... | |
| John Moore - 1787 - 532 pagine
...The Campagna is an uninhabited plain furrounding the city of Rome, bounded on bne fide by the fea, and on the other by an amphitheatre of hills, crowned with towns, villages, and villas, which form the fineft landfcapes that can be imagined. The ancient Romans were wont to feek fhcker from the fcorching... | |
| Robert Percival - 1804 - 362 pagine
...of flat land properly commences from the pass of Musenberg, where it opens into an extensive plain, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by hills of various appearances, some sandy, others rocky, and a few capable of cultivation. Some of these... | |
| 1808 - 580 pagine
...reedy marsh, would become one garden, thickly studded with houses. This plain would then, as now, be bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the steep mountains which curve round the bead of thegulph. But then 1 cannot, help thinking that my... | |
| John Gillies - 1814 - 538 pagine
...the foot of Mount Pangaeus. He admired the solitary beauty of the surrounding district, which being bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by lofty mountains, was watered by many streams and rivulets, which, tempering the dry ness of the soil,... | |
| 1817 - 110 pagine
...The South Denes on which the Royal Hospital stands, form a delightful promontory two miles in length, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Yare. The soil so readily absorbs the heaviest showers, that immediately on their ceasing,... | |
| John M'Leod - 1817 - 316 pagine
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 798 pagine
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 pagine
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
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