 | Edmund Burke - History - 1819 - 822 pages
...enemy unsupplied with artillery. 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,...punchbowl : the circle on which the bowl stands would then shew the fortification ; and the space within it our citadel. It appeared by the report of scouts,... | |
 | Robert Percival - Agriculture - 1804 - 362 pages
...of flat land properly commences from the pass of Musenberg, where it opens into an extensive plain, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by hills of various appearances, some sandy, others rocky, and a few capable of cultivation. Some of these... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 580 pages
...reedy marsh, would become one garden, thickly studded with houses. This plain would then, as now, be bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the steep mountains which curve round the bead of thegulph. But then 1 cannot, help thinking that my... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...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 - Haiti - 1810 - 478 pages
...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 Gillies - Greece - 1814 - 538 pages
...the foot of Mount Pangaeus. He admired the solitary beauty of the surrounding district, which being bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by lofty mountains, was watered by many streams and rivulets, which, tempering the dry ness of the soil,... | |
 | John M'Leod - China - 1817 - 316 pages
...unsu iplied with artillery. 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,...punch-bowl: the circle on which the bowl stands would then shew the fortification; and the space within it our citadel. It appeared by the report of scouts, a... | |
 | Great Yarmouth (England) - 1817 - 110 pages
...The South Denes on which the Royal Hospital stands, form a delightful promontory two miles in length, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the river Yare. The soil so readily absorbs the heaviest showers, that immediately on their ceasing,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1818 - 1264 pages
...enemy unsupplied with artillery. 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,...punchbowl : the circle on which the bowl stands would then shew the fortification ; and the space within it our citadel. It appeared by the report of scouts,... | |
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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. 
