 nearly 500 feet above the level of the sea. From this point it may be made to irrigate a surface of about 25,000 acres, limited on one side by the sea, and on the other by the crest of the amphitheatre whose centre is occupied by the city. For the supply...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Pàgina 351850Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1817 - 110 pàgines
...Denes on which the Royal Hogpita? stands, form a delightful promontory two miles in length, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Yare. The soil so readily absorbs the heaviest showers, that immediately on their ceasing, every... | |
 | John Preston (of Yarmouth.) - 1819 - 344 pàgines
...has been allotted for the raceground forms a delightful plain, nearly two miles in length, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Yare. The soil so readily absorbs the heaviest showers, that, almost immediately on their ceasing,... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1823 - 574 pàgines
...Isle of Leon into the bay. This isthmus is from a quarter to half a-mile in breadth, being flanked on one side by the sea, and on the other by the Bay of Cadiz. An enemy, who had made himself master of the island, must pass along this isthmus, where... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 468 pàgines
...lines, strong by nature, and greatly improved by art, extended to a distance of 3d miles, flanked, on one side, by the sea, and on the other by the Tagus. The British army consisted of 80,000 efficient troops; besides 25,000 Portuguese regulars, 40,000... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1828 - 622 pàgines
...extending from the isle into the bay; this isthmus is from a quarter to half a mile broad, flanked on one side by the sea, and on the other by the bay of Cadiz¿ Along this isthmus, an enemy who had madö himself master of the island must pass; new... | |
 | 1830 - 524 pàgines
...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 perpetually... | |
 | 1832 - 540 pàgines
...again, commanded by the peak which gives its name to the whole group, form an insulated mass, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the vast plain of Metija, extending from the Masafran to the Buberac, and from the sea to the Little Atlas.... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1836 - 256 pàgines
...callers to prayer, like the hand of a cardinal with its costly ring,—with its seraglio gardens washed on one side by the sea, and on the other by the gentle stream that glides out of the " Valley of Sweet Waters;"—men-of-war on one side, flaunting... | |
 | Gustave Auguste de La Bonninière de Beaumont - 1839 - 760 pàgines
...hundred, or hundred and fifty thousand acres in the county of Cork or Donegal ; that it is bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the loftiest mountain perceptible in the horizon. Desirous of deriving from these possessions the greatest... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1845 - 522 pàgines
...however, to foresee the period in which the words of the seer shall receive their fulfilment. Surrounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the sands of the desert, Alexandria is placed, we may almost say, in an insular position. The present city,... | |
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