 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 626 pages
...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 all sides... | |
 | David Landsborough - Arran (Scotland) - 1875 - 510 pages
...vlridis ; Drosera Anglica, and the more' common Drosera rotundifolia. I came at last to a mountain lake, more than a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. As I had no map of the island, I knew not what it was, but I was much struck with the utter loneliness... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - India - 1876 - 356 pages
...vigour. Candy, the largest inland town in Ceylon, is built on the shore of an artificial lake, over a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, which stands at an elevation of 1678 feet above the sea. Here the governor and most of the leading... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1876 - 774 pages
...and nearly 2,000 feet above the sea. The summit is a flat oblong, and is said by Porter to be half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. I should have hardly thought it so large ; but his figures, which were no doubt written on the spot,... | |
 | Samuel Truesdale Livermore - Block Island (R.I. : Island) - 1877 - 382 pages
...sand drifting past your feet like water gliding over a smooth surface, and then look upon a surface a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, thus moving to the sea whose receding waves and surf carry off the sand as fast as it is deposited.... | |
 | Aids to navigation - 1878 - 506 pages
...river has a fine deep entrance running nearly north and south between two lines of breakers about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, 3 fathoms was the least water obtained on the bar, which did not break as it was crossed, it being... | |
 | Edmund Leathes - 1880 - 260 pages
...bridged by a canoe, by which means " The Island " was reached. " The Island," which was about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, was densely covered with bush and scrub, except here and there where it had been cleared to supply... | |
 | G. Phillips Bevan - Warwickshire (England) - 1882 - 174 pages
...surrendered. In Edward I.'s time, mention is made of the Pool which partly surrounded the Castle, half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, with two mills standing upon it, and in 1279 a great tournament was held, in which a hundred knights,... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - Pilot guides - 1883 - 938 pages
...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 occupied... | |
 | Alfred Burdon Ellis - Africa, West - 1885 - 368 pages
...Africa. THE island of Goree cannot be described as being of great extent. It is only three-quarters of a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth at the widest point, that is in the middle, from which it gradually tapers down to a point at each... | |
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It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends. 
