 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 556 pagine
...north of Vourla; it is a quarter of a mile in length, and 30 feet wide. The island ho estimat d at a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. As the principal part of its territory was on the mainland it could not properly be called oil insular... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - 1867 - 738 pagine
...Spaniards were remarkable for their thick walls of stone. They are very straggling, covering a space of half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Among them are the remains of one used as a church, and another as a hospital. These are now... | |
 | Nevada. Legislature. Senate - 1867 - 796 pagine
...important. They are situated about ten miles south of the Truckee River, and cover a belt of country about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width, at the foot of a range of low basaltic hills, the basalt being an extensive flow overlying granite.... | |
 | 1877 - 386 pagine
...bay, which also affords protection from southerly gales in 8 to 10 fathoms. Xioch Ranza, a small inlet about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile broad, on the north side of Arran, affords good anchorage with winds from West round southerly and... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1868 - 148 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.... | |
 | 1869 - 558 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... | |
 | 1869 - 1080 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... | |
 | Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science - 1870 - 148 pagine
...points out to sea. Between this ^argcr island and the eastern side of the harbour lies another island, about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile wide, known as Lawlor's Island. These two .islands have been the means of causing a change in the depth... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1871 - 626 pagine
...Prithi Raj. The village is situated at the south-east corner of the Khajur-Sdgar or Ninora-Tdl, 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. The village is surrounded on... | |
 | F.V Hayden - 1872 - 560 pagine
...sulphur which exists in it. The deposit, which is mostly of a white color, fills a valley that is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. It extends up the side of the mountain in deep ravines, in some of which there is a strong sulphurous... | |
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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. 
