| John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 pages
...by the post, which has induced me to dispense with it. and sod entirely to the bottom of the ditch. The height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank, is now eight feet; two mils make about two feet more, which is ten feet in the whole. An enclosure... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 pages
...modified to suit the outline of the ground. The rampiers and ditches arc in some parts very distinct, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rampier is, on the west side, 20 feet. On the north side the escarpment of the hill is very steep,... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 534 pages
...of the rock is hewn a ditch, about thirty feet wide, and about one hundred and twenty perpendicular height, from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rampart, on the inside. This excavation was said by our guide to be two coss in length ; but as it... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 546 pages
...of the rock is hewn a ditch, about thirty feet wide, and about one hundred and twenty perpendicular height, from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rampart, on the inside. This excavation was said by our guide to be two coss in length ; but as it... | |
| Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 680 pages
...a mound of earth. ''The circular inclosure was surrounded by two walls, with a ditch between them ; the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the walls being twenty feet. 'In the centre of the inclosure was a mound ten feet high, thirty feet in... | |
| New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1849 - 66 pages
...in the town of Oakfield, Genesee County; it measures, in some places, between seven and eight feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. In some cases the embankment is not more than a foot in height and the trench of the same depth. Lest... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Ohio - 1848 - 140 pages
...enclosure was about j» - 1 * 1 j_ 1 • -I i Ancient Works near Newark. walls, with a ditch between them ; the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the walls being twenty feet. In the centre of the enclosure was a mound ten feet high, thirty feet in diameter... | |
| 1860 - 780 pages
...curtains near their base. The place is surrounded (except at the gateway) by a dry ditch about six feet deep, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet varies from 20 to 25 feet. On the north-east and south-east sides there is an impenetrable... | |
| 1860 - 774 pages
...curtains near their base. The place is surrounded (except at the gateway) by a dry ditch about six feet deep, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet varies from 20 to 25 feet. On the north-east and south-east sides there is an impenetrable... | |
| Western Reserve Historical Society - Ohio - 1877 - 552 pages
...two feet. The breadth of the ditch varies from six to eleven feet ; of the wall, ten to fifteen feet. From the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is now four to five feet. The outline of the island is more oblong, than the fort sloping more gradually... | |
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