 | Charles Henry Eden - 1876 - 356 pages
...vigour. Candy, the largest inland town in Ceylon, is built on the shore of an artificial lake, over a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, which stands at an elevation of 1678 feet above the sea. Here the governor and most of the leading... | |
 | Samuel Truesdale Livermore - 1877 - 382 pages
...sand drifting past your feet like water gliding over a smooth surface, and then look upon a surface a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, thus moving to the sea whose receding waves and surf carry off the sand as fast as it is deposited.... | |
 | 1878 - 506 pages
...river has a fine deep entrance running nearly north and south between two lines of breakers about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, 3 fathoms was the least water obtained on the bar, which did not break as it was crossed, it being... | |
 | Edmund Leathes - 1880 - 260 pages
...bridged by a canoe, by which means " The Island " was reached. " The Island," which was about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, was densely covered with bush and scrub, except here and there where it had been cleared to supply... | |
 | G. Phillips Bevan - 1882 - 174 pages
...surrendered. In Edward I.'s time, mention is made of the Pool which partly surrounded the Castle, half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, with two mills standing upon it, and in 1279 a great tournament was held, in which a hundred knights,... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1883 - 938 pages
...were remarkable for their thick walls of stone; they are very straggling-, covering a space of half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Among them are the remains of one used as a church, and another as a hospital. These are now occupied... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pages
...large sheet of water, which adds considerably to the beauty of the landscape This reservoir is about three-quarters of a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile across at its widest part. It was formed for the supply of the Grand Junction Canal, and, like the... | |
 | Alfred Burdon Ellis - 1885 - 368 pages
...Aggression in Western Africa. THE island of Goree cannot be described as being of great extent. It is only three-quarters of a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth at the widest point, that is in the middle, from which it gradually tapers down to a point at each... | |
 | 1885 - 494 pages
...with a south-east wind, lies N. by E. and S. by TV., and within the depth of 3 fathoms is one-third of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. From the centre of the hank the lighthouse bears about West about 8 cables distant. At a quarter of... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1885 - 664 pages
...large sheet of water, which adds considerably to the beauty of the landscape This reservoir is about three-quarters of a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile across at its widest part. It was formed for the supply of the Grand Junction Canal and, like the reservoir... | |
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It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends. 
