 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 344 pages
...THE STATUE OF SCHWARZENBERG. like a section of a walled city, • — since it is more than a third of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Within this vast enclosure are barracks, gun factories, a cannon foundry, and a military museum. THE... | |
 | Hamlin Garland - 1899 - 422 pages
...settler. Mr. Stewart, during the second season, planted a field of corn just back of his barn, nearly half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, which made a magnificent ambush for wolves and foxes and skunks, and as the spring chickens grew nice... | |
 | Elijah Kellogg - 1899 - 338 pages
...port of Marseilles is completely land-locked, being a salt water lake, of the shape of an egg, half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. The entrance into it is not more than a hundred yards in width, and defended by strong fortifications.... | |
 | Julian Ralph - 1900 - 412 pages
...The result, as seen afterwards, was a surface devastation almost baffling description. In the space of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width there was scarcely a square yard not torn up, perforated, riddled, ploughed, and raked. Shrapnel... | |
 | Julian Ralph - 1900 - 364 pages
...The result, as seen afterwards, was a surface devastation almost baffling description. In the space of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width there was scarcely a square yard not torn up, perforated, riddled, ploughed, and raked. Shrapnel... | |
 | Henrietta Christian Wright - 1902 - 372 pages
...colony. At this time the city of St. Augustine contained about three thousand inhabitants. It was about three-quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width, and was surrounded with fortifications. The houses were built of stone, and their entrances... | |
 | John Murdoch Ebenezer Ross - 1905 - 350 pages
...flanked by steep slopes on its northern side. In the centre of the hollow is a little loch — perhaps a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth — with the ruins of an old castle jutting into it upon a promontory. At the western end of the loch,... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1906 - 362 pages
...to the North-West of Hong Kong, and to the West of the Kowloon Peninsula. The island, which is about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, is fortified and formerly contained the gunpowder de'pot of the colony, which has now been removed... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1907 - 422 pages
...pretty steep acclivity, attains the height of a hundred and ten feet above sea level. It measures about three-quarters of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, and the lines of fortification extended around the whole hill (except upon the northwest side, which... | |
 | London and North-Western Railway - 1907 - 170 pages
...Cidwm). Here the peak of Snowdon comes into sight. Quellyn Lake is a beautiful expanse of water upwards of a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width. It abounds with fish of all kinds; the fishing is free, and boats can be hired for fishing or... | |
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It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends. 
