 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1830 - 172 pages
...rebuilt as a farm-house, and the only vestige of the original edifice is a gateway. LOWES WATER Is a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is surrounded by noble mountains, the lower parts of which are covered with wood. It differs... | |
 | George Tattersall - 1836 - 392 pages
...distance of seven miles from Ennerdale, in sight of Loweswater. This pleasing little lake does not exceed a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth. The finest scenery is at its foot, where it falls into Crummock Water ; and its general character... | |
 | Royal Geological Society of Ireland - Geology - 1838 - 512 pages
...our magnesian limestone district may appear, when compared to that of England— being less than half a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth— still I think there are sufficient grounds to support Mr. Bryce's view as to the identity... | |
 | James Fraser - Ireland - 1844 - 820 pages
...its dimensions, and only covered with water during winter, or in very wet weather. The upper lough is a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in ,,v;,.H h. It is 441 feet above the evel of the sea, and the mountains which limit it rise almost perpendiHAND... | |
 | John Scott - Dogs - 1845 - 312 pages
...Paddock was generally a piece of ground taken out of a Park, and fenced with pales or a wall ; it was a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth, but the farther end was always broader than that which the dogs started from, the better to... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...Nant-y-Gwynant, and presently expands into one of the very loveliest little lakes in Wales. Llyn Gwynant is not above a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile broad, but is of the richest character. The mountains around are of fine and pleasing form ; the banks... | |
 | Henry Tudor - Families - 1848 - 468 pages
...lakes, of which it commands very fine prospects. The latter is a very small lake, being not more than a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth ; and communicates with Grasmere Water, whose length is the same, but its breadth half a mile.... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...Nant-y-Gwynant, and presently expands into one of the very loveliest little lakes in Wales. Llyn Gwynant is not above a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile broad, but is of the richest character. The mountains around are of fine and pleasing form ; the banks... | |
 | Admiralty hydrogr. dept, Great Britain. Hydrographic Department - 1870 - 328 pages
...run at high The Knoll or Denham Bank, embraced by a 10-fathoms boundary, extends NW and SE, and is a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in breadth, its south-east end being within four cables of the north part of Skokham. Its 5-fathoms sandy... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1871 - 358 pages
...lemons, limes, citrons, shaddocks, bergamot, China and Seville oranges. The city was three-quarters of a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in width. It had four churches, ornamentally built of stone in the Spanish style. One was pulled down... | |
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The city was three-quarters of a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in width. 
