 | John M'Leod - China - 1818 - 358 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
 | John M'Leod - China - 1818 - 272 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
 | John M'Leod - Alceste (Ship) - 1819 - 370 pages
...artillery. That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musquet-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...inclination to remain after they are gone, we intend to return to Home in a few day?, LETTER LXIX. Rome. IT E delayed visiting Tivoli, Frescati^ and Albano, till...among the woods and lakes of those hills ; and the card;* nals and Roman princes, at the same season, retire to their villas ; while many of the wealthier... | |
 | John Gillies - Greece - 1820 - 540 pages
...the foot of mount Pangaeus. He admired the solitary beauty of the surrounding district, which being bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by lofty mountains, was watered by many streams and rivulets, which, tempering the dryness of the soil,... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...western coast, there is a narrow slip of low land, scarcely exceeding forty miles in width, which is bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the great chain of mountains called the Western Ghauts. In this narrow tract, and on the crest of the... | |
 | English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...scout us Christians as we passed. After this we entered into a plain totally deserted and uncultivated, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a chain of hills. This plain is sandy, but strewed with dwarfish plants and shrubs ; the path through... | |
 | Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1830 - 624 pages
...Carthaginians from passing up into the country that way. " Carthage was situate on a peninsula, which is bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a lake. The isthmus that joins this peninsula to the continent is about three miles broad. Utica stood... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...thousand four hundred male inhabitants, besides women and children. It is situated on a small sand-bank, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Ochota), which is in fact a perfect honeycomb, through which the waters of the river are... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 756 pages
...pell-mell into Cadsand : they fought from street to street and from house to house ; hemmed in as they were on one side by the sea, and on the other by an arm of the Schelde,. the entire garrison, unable to escape, were either killed or taken prisoners,... | |
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That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. 
