 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1831 - 564 pages
...forty, great and small. Our regiment lay on CHAP. the sides of the hill, almost round about. The v-»-vO place was not ample in circle, a pretty round rising...quarter of a mile in length, and as much in breadth, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The crowners lay in canvass lodges, high and wide ; their... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1831 - 560 pages
...great and small. Our regiment lay on CHAP. the sides of the hill, almost round about. The v*-vplace was not ample in circle, a pretty round rising in...quarter of a mile in length, and as much in breadth, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The crowners lay in canvass lodges, high and wide ; their... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1894 - 478 pages
...and small. Onr regiments lay on the sides of the Hill almost round about, the place was not a mile in circle ; a pretty round rising in a declivity, without steepness, to the height of a bow shot ; on the top somewhat plain ; abont a ijnarter of a mile in length, and ns much in breadth,... | |
 | Robert Baillie, David Laing - Great Britain - 1841 - 536 pages
...without fteepnefs, to the height of a bowfhott ; on the toppe fomewhat playne ; about a quarter of myle in length, and as much in breadth, as I remember, capable of tents for fortie thoufand men. The crowners lay in kennous [canvafs] lodges, high and wyde ; their captaines... | |
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...and small. Our regiments lay on the sides of the Hill, almost round about : the place was not a mile in circle ; a pretty round, rising in a declivity,...and as much in breadth ; as I remember, capable of tenis for forty thousand men. The crowners* lay in kennous (canvas) lodges, high and wide ; their captains... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford - 1849 - 540 pages
...and small. Our regiments lay on the sides of the hill, almost round about ; the place was not a mile in circle, a pretty round, rising in a declivity,...much in breadth, as I remember, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The Crowners (Colonels) lay in kennous (canvas) lodges, high and wide ; their Captains... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 534 pages
...Hill, almost round about; the I'laee was not a mile in cirele; a pretty round, rising in a deelivity, without steepness, to the height of a bow-shot; on...much in breadth ; as I remember, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The Lrowners1 lay in kennous (muras) lodges, high and wide ; their capuins about... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 450 pages
...and small. Our regiments lay on the sides of the Hill, almost round about : the place was not a mile in circle ; a pretty round, rising in a declivity,...much in breadth ; as I remember, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The crowners3 lay in kennous (canvas) lodges, high and wide ; their captains about... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pages
...and small. Our regiments lay on the sides of the Hill, almost round about : the place was not a mile in circle ; a pretty round, rising in a declivity,...; about a quarter of a mile in length, and as much hi breadth ; as I remember, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The crowners3 lay in kennous (canvas)... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1873 - 446 pages
...their horses." — Letters, i. 210. the sides of the hill almost round about. The place was not a mile in circle — a pretty round rising in a declivity...much in breadth, as I remember, capable of tents for forty thousand men. The crouners lay in canvas lodgings high and wide ; their captains about them in... | |
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Hill was garnished on the top, towards the south and east, with our mounted cannon ; well near to the number of forty, great and small. Our regiments lay on the sides of the Hill, almost round about: the place was not a mile in circle; a pretty round,... 
