 | Voyages and travels - 1760 - 230 pages
...an anchor near the ifland of Plata. This ifland, which is fituated in i°. 10'. fouth latitude, is about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. It is pretty high, and furrounded with rocky cliffs, except in one place en the eaft fide, where a... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 524 pages
...1091) on the approach of King William's army. Tralee is in the barony of Trughenackmy : the parish is about four miles in length and one and a half in breadth, and has an area of 4391 acres, statute measure : the population in 1831 was as follows : — Houses.... | |
 | Elijah Hoole - India - 1844 - 502 pages
...travelled through such a wilderness as I had not hitherto seen, — uninhabited, rocky, and barren, with hardly a stunted shrub or a blade of grass to relieve...otherwise be without means of irrigation ; and thus the verdure of cultivation is extended far beyond the immediate banks of the Cauvery. The lovely green... | |
 | Alfred Radford Symonds - India - 1845 - 430 pages
...Seringapatam, in lat. 12° 25' N., long. 76° 45' E., is situated on a small island in the Cavery, of about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth; the town occupying about a mile at one end of it. The town was first built about AD 1630, and became... | |
 | 1847 - 834 pages
...bar, I believe it to be as healthy as Galveston, or any other spot along the Gulf coast. The island is about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. It would be almost level with the Gulf, but for the sand hills which line its southern extremity for... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - India - 1848 - 372 pages
...small island in the river Cavery, in Lat. 12 deg. 25 min. N., Long. 76 deg. 45 min. E. The island is about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth ; the town occupying about a mile at one end of it. The town was first built in about 1630, and became... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 804 pages
...believe it to be ns healthful as Galveston, or any other spot along the Gulf roast. This island is about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. It would be almost level with the Gulf, but for the sand hills which line its southern extremity for... | |
 | English literature - 1883 - 606 pages
...and during the whole of next day, at the expiration of which it had travelled over an area of ground about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. The number of buildings destroyed was 17,450 ; 98,860 persons were made homeless; and 250 persons either... | |
 | 1847 - 788 pages
...bar, I believe it to be as healthy as Galveston, or any other spot along the Gulf coast. The island is about four miles in length, and one and a half in breadth. It would be almost level with the Gulf, bnt for the sand hills which line its southern extremity for... | |
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... Brazos Island, it might be inferred from the many statements that have been made, is particularly unhealthy, from its location. This, I think, cannot be the case. Though a dreary and uninteresting sand bar, I believe it to be as healthy as Galveston,... 