 | Robert Fraser - 1807 - Počet stránok 168
...present vast losses are sustained by the channel trade. Distinguishing Light proposed to be erected on the great Island of the Saltees. The sea, adjacent...with only a narrow sound difficult to find without an experienced pilot. The islands and rocky shallows stretch into the sea, nearly two leagues from the... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...may be estimated as the production of volcanic fusion and Little Cumbrar. eruption. Little Cumbray is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth. The strata of rocks are horizontal; and as they recede from the shore, they rise above each other like... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - Počet stránok 332
...connected by the river Seiont, which passes through them. The upper one, sometimes called Llyn Peris, is about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth ; the other, Llyn Padern, named after the founder of the ruined castle 2c hard by, is much longer, but not... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 450
...the east coast of Scotland, between the openings of the friths of Tay and Forth. The ridge extends about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, the top of the rock being only seen for a few hours at low water in spring tides. This rock not only renders... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 898
...run along the northern and southern boundaries of the coal basin, which is of an oval form, probably about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth. The coal here is about six and a-half feet in thickness, is rather soft in its texture, and comes up to... | |
 | 1882 - Počet stránok 662
...Island and the Anahone basins ; the former covering an area of six square miles by two, the latter only about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth. The strata are much disturbed and contorted, so that great irregularity arises in the working from changes... | |
 | William Cathrall - 1851 - Počet stránok 354
...extent, and are connected by the river Seiont, which passes through them. The upper one, Llyu Peris, is about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth ; the other, Llyn Padarn, is about a mile and a half long, but so narrow as to assume rather the appearance... | |
 | William White - 1855 - Počet stránok 830
...length from east to west, and about one in breadth ; but the densely-populated part of the town 13 only about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth. The Municipal and Parliamentary limits of the Borough of Ipncich are co-extensive, and occupy an area of... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 120
...this escarpment. The first is seen at Ham Court, about two miles south of Upton -on- Severn ; it is about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth. The second is much larger, and is bounded on the east by a downcast fault. Its western boundary is a natural... | |
 | Edward Hull - 1857 - Počet stránok 124
...of this escarpment. The first is seen at Ham Court, about two miles south of Upton-on- Severn; it is about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth. The second is much larger, and is bounded on the east by a downcast fault. Its western boundary is a natural... | |
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The larger, about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, the lesser, about half a mile in circumference. 
