 | Cincinnati Historical Society - Ohio - 1872 - 152 pages
...surface of the ground, having a ditch about three feet deep on the outside, making the height six feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. The base of the wall is about thirty feet and the ditch of the same width. In the north part of the... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - Māori (New Zealand people) - 1873 - 420 pages
...being strengthened by a square redoubt of very formidable construction, its ditch being 12 feet wide, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 feet. The •strength of this work was not known before the attack,- as its profile could... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...Climbing the steep face of the hill, we find the summit fenced by a vast earthen rampart and ditch, the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rampart being not less than 106 feet. The area within, an irregular circle, contains 2?i acres. In... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1894 - 886 pages
...is at the south end. On the eastern side, where it has never been plowed over, the vertical distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall is from 4 to 6 feet; at other points from 2 to 3 feet. The interior area is somewhat higher than the outside... | |
 | James O'Laverty - Parishes - 1884 - 520 pages
...the summit of a gentle eminence. Tt is 212 feet in diameter at the base, and from 2*0 to 24 feet in height, from the bottom of the ditch, to the top of the parapet, which encircles its summit. This parapet is 7 feet high in the inside, and 8 feet broad at... | |
 | David Craft - Pennsylvania - 1885 - 310 pages
...had appeared while we were watching to shoot flies off Johnnie's caps. We found a ditch about five feet deep, and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the earthwork was nearly ten feet. The first thought that came to my mind as I jumped into the ditch, was... | |
 | Julius Caesar - Gaul - 1886 - 580 pages
...thrown down the hill. At all events, it seems probable that the measure of 16 feet is the distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. Thus the work formed really little more than a trench with scarp higher than the counterscarp. Then... | |
 | Ohio - 1888 - 570 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... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1889 - 492 pages
...section of each is very similar. These sectional dimensions may be given as ranging from G to 10 feet in the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall ; and the breadth of the top from 5 to 9 feet. Climatic and other agencies have much reduced them from... | |
 | Julius Caesar - 1890 - 654 pages
...thrown down the hill. At all events, it seems probable that the measure of 16 feet is the distance from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. Thus the work formed really little more than a trench with scarp higher than the counterscarp. Then... | |
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... and the height from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the parapet 18 ft. 
