 | Books and bookselling - 1789 - 376 pages
...much 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... | |
 | 560 pages
...before 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... | |
 | John Walker - Geography - 1801 - 978 pages
...Lmut¡ 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... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...mind with 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... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 668 pages
...drain, but 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... | |
 | William Gilpin - England - 1808 - 338 pages
...more 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Antonio de Alcedo - America - 1814 - 654 pages
...town of 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... | |
 | John Campbell - Ethnology - 1815 - 622 pages
...land. After tea we ascended one of the hills, to have a complete view of the whole settlement, which is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth : the gardens being so numerous, the whole resembled a city in a wood. I viewed it as a garden... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - Latin America - 1818 - 378 pages
...Pensacola, is in 30° 28' north latitude, and 87° 12' west longitude. The city is of an oblong form, about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, delightfully placed, and accounted a very healthy place. The entrance into the bay is fortified... | |
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The deposit, which is mostly of a white color, fills a valley that is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width. 
