| Architecture - 1776 - 502 pages
...weft fide of Chichefter is a large Roman camp called the Brill. It is an oblong iquare, being about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It lies in a flat low ground, with a great rampart and a fingle graff, and is generally thought to... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1789 - 376 pages
...more bpautiful. The mountains here approach nearer the houfe, between two of which runs a valley about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The fides and bottom of this valley are wholly filled with wood, thro' which runs a rocky and founding... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Scotland - 1796 - 682 pages
...may piobably prove a valuable mine. There are 6 lakes in the parifn, the largeft of which does not exceed half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile...in breadth. Thefe lie in the moor-land part of the pariflj, and contribute to render that a chearful profpe£t, which would otherwife be bleak and dull.... | |
| 560 pages
...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... | |
| John Walker - Geography - 1801 - 978 pages
...fori'jt, Nortbtimbcrlaad, in the SW. part of the county. LOWES WATER, a lake of Curab«rland, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is a molt romantic (pot, the oppoftM Ihoree beine rivals in beauty of hanging wood«, íittlr groves,... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...a pleasing melancholy. Loch Tarjioch is situated in a plain at the head of Gkn Earsay. It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The banks of the loch are surrounded with blocks of granite, and its beach is composed of granitic... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 668 pages
...a considerable quantity of marl and of moss, which in this inland district is used for fuel. About a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, of a lake still remains, of from two to twenty-two feet deep in summer. Marl has been dragged out of... | |
| William Gilpin - England - 1808 - 338 pages
...beautiful. The mountains here approach nearer the houfe; and between two of them runs a valley about a mile in length ; and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The fides and bottom of this valley are wholly filled with wood, through which winds a rocky and founding... | |
| William Gilpin - Cambridge (England) - 1809 - 270 pages
...pafled. The ruins of Abbey Crucis, which gives name to the vale, ftand at one end of a flat meadow, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It is bounded on one fide by a mountain-ridge, with little variety of line, fave what it receives from... | |
| Antonio de Alcedo - America - 1814 - 654 pages
...Pensacola, the capital of W. Florida, lies along the beach of the bay, is of an oblong form, about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. It contains several hundred habitations, and many of the public buildings and houses arc spacious and... | |
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