That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. The Anthropological Review - Стр. 3311864Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Edmund Burke - 1819 - Страниц: 822
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
| 1808 - Страниц: 598
...Tigris, is called the horn.' By the horn then ef the son of oil, the Prophet might mean Syria, which is bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a most barren desert, and stretches out from its base to the south like a horn ; and so these words will... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - Страниц: 518
...distant, near the ruins of the castle of Araya. Night overtook them while fhey were in a narrow path, bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a range of perpendicular 64 GENIUS IN OBSCURITY. rocks. The tide was rising rapidly, and narrowed the... | |
| Thomas Coke - 1810 - Страниц: 478
...advantageous position ; for in addition to the commanding ground on which it stood, it was protected on one side by the sea, and on the other by a morass which was totally impassable. It was, therefore, only on one point that it could be approached.... | |
| John M'Leod - 1817 - Страниц: 316
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - Страниц: 666
...p. 193 — 208.) 266 which is the mere or laguna. Night overtook us While we were in a narrow path, bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a range of perpendicular rocks. The tide was rising rapidly, and narrowed the road at every step. We... | |
| John M'Leod - 1818 - Страниц: 272
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - Страниц: 1264
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1818 - Страниц: 798
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
| John M'Leod - 1819 - Страниц: 370
...That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musquet-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head. Our hill... | |
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