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" That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. "
The Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings by Robert Anderson - Page 363
by John Moore - 1820
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Annual Register, Volume 59

Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our...
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some ...

John Moore - Character sketches - 1781 - 542 pages
...The Campagna is an uninhabited plaid, furrounding the city of Rome, bounded on one fide by the fea, and on the other by an amphitheatre of hills, crowned with towns, villages, and villas, which form the fineft landfcapes that can be imagined. The ancient Romans were wont to feek fhelter from the fcorching...
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to ..., Volume 2

John Moore - Italy - 1787 - 532 pages
...The Campagna is an uninhabited plain furrounding the city of Rome, bounded on bne fide by the fea, and on the other by an amphitheatre of hills, crowned with towns, villages, and villas, which form the fineft landfcapes that can be imagined. The ancient Romans were wont to feek fhcker from the fcorching...
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An Account of the Cape of Good Hope: Containing an Historical View of Its ...

Robert Percival - Agriculture - 1804 - 362 pages
...of flat land properly commences from the pass of Musenberg, where it opens into an extensive plain, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by hills of various appearances, some sandy, others rocky, and a few capable of cultivation. Some of these...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1808 - 580 pages
...reedy marsh, would become one garden, thickly studded with houses. This plain would then, as now, be bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the steep mountains which curve round the bead of thegulph. But then 1 cannot, help thinking that my...
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The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From ..., Volume 4

John Gillies - Greece - 1814 - 538 pages
...the foot of Mount Pangaeus. He admired the solitary beauty of the surrounding district, which being bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by lofty mountains, was watered by many streams and rivulets, which, tempering the dry ness of the soil,...
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Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea ...

John M'Leod - China - 1817 - 316 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our...
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An Historical Guide to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk with the Most Remarkable ...

Great Yarmouth (England) - 1817 - 110 pages
...The South Denes on which the Royal Hospital stands, form a delightful promontory two miles in length, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Yare. The soil so readily absorbs the heaviest showers, that immediately on their ceasing,...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 59

Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1818 - 798 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our...
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Annual Register, Volume 59

Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our...
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