| Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 910 Seiten
...deep valley, excavated chiefly out of the soft argillaceous bed, termed gault (No. 3, map, p. 357). In some places the upper greensand is in a loose and...for it runs out like a step beyond the foot of the chalk hills, and constitutes a lower terrace, varying in breadth from a quar ter of a mile to three... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1866 - 866 Seiten
...is of great thickness, and contains hard beds of blue chert and calcareous sandstone or firestoue. Here, accordingly, we find that it produces a corresponding...for it runs out like a step beyond the foot of the chalk hills, and constitutes a lower terrace, varying in breadth from a quar ter of a mile to three... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1884 - 568 Seiten
...ship lay might have covered a hundred and fifty acres in extent, the belt of land which encircled it, varying in breadth from a quarter of a mile to three miles. Most of the island was an open grove, lying at an elevation of from ten to thirty feet above the ocean... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1891 - 742 Seiten
...ship lay might have covered a hundred and fifty acres in extent, the belt of land which encircled it varying in breadth from a quarter of a mile to three miles. Most of the island was an open grove, lying at an elevation of from ten to thirty feet above the ocean... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 576 Seiten
...ship lay might have covered a hundred and fifty acres in extent, the belt of land which encircled it, varying in breadth from a quarter of a mile to three miles. Most of the island was an open grove, lying at an elevation of from ten to thirty feet above the ocean... | |
| John Mitchel - 1913 - 632 Seiten
...Georgetown. So we dropped down the river at our leisure. It is a most winding and dangerous estuary, varying in breadth from a quarter of a mile to three miles, bordered by hills, all covered with unbroken forest, except where a small farm has been cleared here... | |
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