 | 1823 - 198 pagine
...in one year it does not produce food sufficient for the consumption of six weeks. The city is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is surrounded by fortifications, being a place which, in time of war, an enemy would be most likely,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pagine
...and by a battery on the opposite shore. The city is delightfully placed on the sea-coast, extending a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It was fortified by the English, though not in a very perfect manner ; but, being well garrisoned,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 pagine
...water-melons, pumpkins, and a little corn. Half a mile east of the city, is a small hill, improved by art, about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile broad, and very steep on every side, except to the south-west, which was probably the camp of ancient... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pagine
...and by a battery on the opposite shore. The city is delightfully placed on the eea-coast, extending a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It was fortified by the English, though not in a very perfect manner ; but, being well garrisoned,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 634 pagine
...the shore, forms a kind of amphitheatre, and, from the bay, has a charming appearance. It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, allowing for its irregularities of shape, and is said to contain, independent of its garrison, about... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pagine
...the shore, forms a kind of amphitheatre, and, from the bay, has a charming appearance. It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, allowing for its irregularities of shape, and is said to contain, independent of its garrison, about... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pagine
...cottages over-thrown. The scene of devastation extended from the cliff to the margin of the lake, about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. We found ourselves amidst wrecks and rubbish : here a peasant's wooden dwelling half buried beneath... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1830 - 612 pagine
...narrow neck of land, near the south-eastern extremity of the island, stands the city, which is about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is surrounded by fortifications, which have been gradually improved, in proportion to the growing... | |
 | 1847 - 558 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... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pagine
...neck of land, near the southeastern extremity of the island, stands the city of Bombay, which is about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It has an extensive fort, near which there once used to be a forest of Cocoa-nut trees, but these have... | |
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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. 
