 | Oregon Historical Society - 1909 - 432 pagine
...Bay. These spurs are also narrow and steep ; that to the N. West falling into a large, deep marsh of about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width, near the extremity of which there are two headlands jutting into the sea and rising abruptly... | |
 | 1909 - 432 pagine
...Bay. These spurs are also narrow and steep; that to the N. West falling into a large, deep marsh of about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width, near the extremity of which there are two headlands jutting into the sea and rising abruptly... | |
 | Charles Waddell Chesnutt - 1993 - 220 pagine
...some extent. It was drained at a somewhat later date, but at the time to which I now refer spread for half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Having been planted in rice many years before, it therefore contained no large trees, but was grown... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - 2000 - 404 pagine
...at a very small expense quays may be constructed at which the largest vessels may unload. This cove is about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile across at the entrance. In honour of Lord Sydney the governor distinguished it by the name of Sydney... | |
 | Sharon Hartman Strom - 2001 - 360 pagine
...bawdy waterfront, "with the whole of business operations of the city compressed into a space about a half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width," offered lawyers plenty of opportunities to represent clients in criminal trials and lawsuits.... | |
 | George R. Fairbanks - 2013 - 228 pagine
...covered 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.... | |
 | 1851 - 654 pagine
...built whale boat to face it. Our nautical amusements were therefore confined to a salt water lake, of about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth at its broadest part — situated a little way to the westward of Cape Coast town. The pleasure yachts... | |
 | 1869 - 548 pagine
...prevent its 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... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - 1909 - 422 pagine
...Bay. These spurs are also narrow and steep ; that to the N. West falling into a large, deep marsh of about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width, near the extremity of which there are two headlands jutting into the sea and rising abruptly... | |
 | 1875 - 704 pagine
...perpendicular limestone precipices. At the foot of one of the latter was a silent city, a city of tombs, nearly half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Thither all the dead Mahommedans were brought from a great distance on both sides of the river. Unlike... | |
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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. 
