 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1858 - 452 pagine
...directions, take their origin. This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width, which forms a kind of shallow basin, only sparingly covered by a thin coat of short grass and other... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 830 pagine
...directions, take their origin. This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width, which forms a kind of shallow basin, only sparingly covered by a thin coat of short grass and other... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1858 - 230 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.... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1860 - 368 pagine
...palace itself, has been reared between the two palaces, and they now appear like one vast pile, nearly half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width, and sufficient to lodge ten thousand people ! Another worderful building is being erected in the Champs... | |
 | Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1871 - 572 pagine
...surface of the water, commencing about a quarter of a mile from where they stood, and through an extent of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, a portion of Truro and Calenick Rivers (an every-day scene to him in his boyhood). The slopes... | |
 | Samuel Harrison - 1864 - 214 pagine
...covering about 76 acres. From the dam-head to the embankment, the sheet of water spread out for more than a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. In the centre the depth was between 80 and 90 feet, and the reservoir would contain 114,000,000 cubic... | |
 | John Philip Newman - 1864 - 508 pagine
...the patriarchs stretch out before the eye in all their native beauty and richness. Covering an area half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth are fragments of pottery, remains of foundations, and traces of a stone wall, the date of which... | |
 | John Philip Newman - 1864 - 504 pagine
...the patriarchs stretch out before the eye in all their native beauty and richness. Covering an area half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth are fragments of pottery, remains of foundations, and traces of a stone wall, the date of which... | |
 | 1866 - 460 pagine
...directions, take their origin. This mountain is covered by a dense forest, with the exception of a level spot of about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width, which forms a kind of shallow basin, only sparingly covered by a thin coat of short grass and other... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pagine
...covered seventy-six acres. From the dam-bead to the embankment the sheet of water spread out more than d not ca In the centre the depth was between eighty and ninety feet; and the reservoir would contain 114,000,000... | |
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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. 
