...sand drifting past your feet like water gliding over a smooth surface, and then look upon a surface a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, thus moving to the sea whose receding waves and surf carry off the sand as fast as it is deposited....

...river has a fine deep entrance running nearly north and south between two lines of breakers about half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, 3 fathoms was the least water obtained on the bar, which did not break as it was crossed, it being...

...from the Dakota line is a well preserved trachytic tuff. Sun Dance Mountain is an oblong mass of rock about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width. It has an elevation of over 1000 feet above the surrounding countryIt has been suggested that...

...one of the most wonderful geysers in the world. The group occupies an area extending along the river about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width. The principal springs are found on a mound about fifty feet above the river level on the left...

...bridged by a canoe, by which means " The Island " was reached. " The Island," which was about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, was densely covered with bush and scrub, except here and there where it had been cleared to supply...

...surrendered. In Edward I.'s time, mention is made of the Pool which partly surrounded the Castle, half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth, with two mills standing upon it, and in 1279 a great tournament was held, in which a hundred knights,...

...were remarkable for their thick walls of stone; they are very straggling-, covering a space of half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth. Among them are the remains of one used as a church, and another as a hospital. These are now occupied...

...Africa. THE island of Goree cannot be described as being of great extent. It is only three-quarters of a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth at the widest point, that is in the middle, from which it gradually tapers down to a point at each...

...guests is'^now celebrated and known to the traveling public. Steamboat Springs cover a belt of territory about a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in width, at the foot of a range of low basaltic hills, the basalt being an extensive flow overlying granite....

...is a town which, according to Ed. Pococke, is shaped like a square in its ruins and stretches "half a mile in length and a quarter of a mile in breadth" along the banks of the Euphrates (G. Smith, AH Sayce). See the references in Keilinsch. u. Geschichtsforschung...