 | Uno von Troil, Joseph Banks - Geology - 1780 - 440 pages
...among the Greeks. The ifland of * Staffa lies weft of Mull, and three miles NE of Jona or Columb-Kill ; it is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, and belongs to Mr. Lauchlan MacQuarie. On the weft fide of the ifland is a fmall cave, where there is a... | |
 | Uno von Troil - Iceland - 1780 - 444 pages
...among the Greeks. The ifland of * Staffa lies weft of Mull, three miles NE of Jona OF Columb-Kill, and is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth : it belongs to Mr. Lauchlan Mac-Quarie. On the weft fide of the ifland is a fmaU cave, where there... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scotland - 1794 - 642 pages
...; but we muft abridge as much as poflible. We begin with the ifland of Little Cumbray. This ifland is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth. It lies in »he parallel direction to Bute, from SW to NE The ftrata ftrata of the rock of which it... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1802 - 170 pages
...to the sea, the town standing in a peninsula between the sea and the harbour. It extends more than a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, and contains four principal streets, in a direction from north to south, and 1 j6 narrow lanes intersecting them... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1808 - 592 pages
...may be estimated as the production of volcanic fusion and Little Cumbrar. eruption. Little Cumbray is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth. The strata of rocks are horizontal; and as they recede from the shore, they rise above each other like... | |
 | John Bigland - Geography - 1812 - 738 pages
...island is found that rare shrub, the Lapland willow. Stuffa, about six miles to the north of Jona, is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, exhibits a scene of natural magnificence almost unparelleled, and wholly unknown to the public, until... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1815 - 624 pages
...of clay. The next island, Onkatomka, or Unkateme, has no dwelling house on it, is three quarters of a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, and contains ninety- one acres. It is separated from the island of Nanamesset on the south-east by a harbour, called... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 380 pages
...the Danes, and Norwegians, and ages of barbarism succeeded. Staffa, about six miles north of Jona, is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth, and exhibits a scene of natural magnificence almost unparalleled. Sir Joseph Banks explored those interesting... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - Atlases - 1822 - 770 pages
...POINT, a cape on the northeast coast of Kerguelcn's Land. Long. 69. 1*. E. Lat. 48. 48. S. PRINKIPO, the largest and most eastern of the Prince's islands,...coast of Asia Minor. It is about a mile in length, and halt' a mile in breadth, and contains a town, formerly pretty considerable and well tteia. 1( nobuilt,... | |
 | 1823 - 450 pages
...appears to me not worth possession, even without the trouble of conquest, is wnlled entirely round ; it is about a mile in length, and half a mile in width , so that its circumference may be estimated at three miles ; in three quarters of nn hour I... | |
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The largest of the above said islands is about a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth ; and... 
