 | William Coxe - 1819 - 760 pages
...rains or melting of the snows, washes the walls of the city, and falls into the sea on the west. Nice is about a mile and a half in length, and a mile in breadth; yet it is said to contain 2o,ooo inhabitants. The ancient splendour of Nice has suffered... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...gently to the north, till at length they form a semicircle, which is completed beyond the Var. The town is about a mile and a half in length, and a mile in breadth, and contains rather more than thirty thousand inhabitants. The suburbs are divided by the... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...hill Norwich has a striking appearance. Its great e^•tent, the space within the walls being above a mile and a half in length and a mile and a quarter in •width, would alone render it imposing ; but the manner in which that space is occupied renders it... | |
 | John Thomson - 1851 - 1092 pages
...England, county of Suffolk, on the Lark, which is navigable from Lynn to Fornham. The town extends about a mile and a half in length, and a mile and a quarter in breadth. It is divided into five wards, and contains two parish churches, St Mary's and St James's, both which... | |
 | William White - 1855 - 830 pages
...Newmarket and Cambridge, or HO via, Ipewich. The Town, with its suburbs, is about a mile and a hulf in length, and a mile and a quarter in breadth, and...parishes of St. Mary and St. James, which comprise 3040 acres, and increased their population from 7055 in 1801, to 7986 in ] 811 ; 10,999 in 1821 ; Jl,430... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pages
...the hill Norwich has a striking appearance. Its great extent, the space within the walls being above a mile and a half in length and a mile and a quarter in width, would alone render it imposing ; but the manner in which that space is occupied renders it far... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1854 - 254 pages
...delivery of St. Peter from prison, over which is a window, richly ornamented with stained glass. The city is about a mile and a half in length, and a mile and a quarter in breadth ; and the houses being generally furnished with gardens, it occupies more ground in proportion to its population... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1860 - 620 pages
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 | Sullivan Holman M'Collester - 1882 - 400 pages
...south, and the Janiculum on the west. The Tiber runs through the northern and western portions. The city is about a mile and a half in length and a mile in width ; of course the distance between the walls is greater. The first introduction to Rome is quite... | |
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Near us, drowned under the mist, seven thousand men were sleeping, and, farther to the right, General Chaffee's five thousand were lying under the bushes along the trails to El Caney, waiting to march on it and eat it up before breakfast. 
