 | James Fraser - Ireland - 1844 - 908 pages
...elevation of its surface 815 feet above the level of the sea. The little sheet of water, three quarters of a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth, is encompassed •with mountains, and the character of the scenery is very wild and lonely. From Lough... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1270 pages
...eastern boundary of the parish, and that lying contiguous to the Lochar, most of which has been improved. a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in breadth, — which has been converted into meadow of very superior quality. Next to this, upon the east, and... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Crete (Greece) - 1850 - 462 pages
...that the magnitude of the different objects is at first not apparent to the eye. The Square is about a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in breadth. In front of us is the Admiralty Building, with a front of 1,500 feet, and wings resting on the Neva,... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Crete (Greece) - 1859 - 448 pages
...that the magnitude of the different objects is at first not apparent to the eye. The Square is about a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in breadth. In front of us is the Admiralty Building, with a front of 1,500 feet, and wings resting on the Neva,... | |
 | Admiralty hydrogr. dept, Great Britain. Hydrographic Department - 1870 - 308 pages
...Mull, which is a peninsula connected to the main by a low narrow isthmus, extends ESE and WNW, and is a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in breadth. On both sides of the isthmus are the bays of East and West Tarbat. Xiighthouse.—The lighthouse stands... | |
 | Sir Alexander Cunningham - Excavations (Archaeology) - 1871 - 626 pages
...town on the high road from Gwalior to Indor, and about midway between Sipri and Mayana. It is about half a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth, and is surrounded by a rude wall of rough stones set in mud mortar. Outside the town, both to the east... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1871 - 456 pages
...is still supposed to be buried within the limits of the fort. The fort formed an oblong, about one mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth ; the towers and ramparts, of rough stone, were all in a ruined state, and the houses inside were mostly... | |
 | William Lee - 1872 - 348 pages
...a large block, we found the pot of manna engraved on its face Around the synagogue, The whole area, half a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth, was thickly covered with the ruined walls of private houses, amongst which we thought we could trace... | |
 | James Fergusson - Megalithic monuments - 1872 - 624 pages
...extensive group of monuments — eighty cairns, at least, are still to be counted in an area less than half a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in width. These are mostly small, 12 to 15 feet in diameter; one, 20 feet across, was opened by Sir Gardner... | |
 | James Fergusson - Megalithic monuments - 1872 - 646 pages
...extensive group of monuments — eighty cairns, at least, are still to be counted in an area less than half a mile in length, by a quarter of a mile in width. These are mostly small, 12 to 15 feet in diameter; one, 20 feet across, was opened by Sir Gardner... | |
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Wahnapitae is three-quarters of a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth., and 165 feet deep. 
