In the highest part of this reclaimed land, which is about the middle of the old lake, there is seen a circular part resembling in shape the top of an immense tub, about sixty feet in diameter.
Of the crannog, the diameter is about sixty feet; its exterior face so worn away by wave action, that the traces of the outer row of piling are now some feet distant.
We continued to follow the general course of the stream upon whose banks we were encamped, and after riding eight miles we crossed another small stream, rising in a chain of small lakes south of our last camp.
After shaking hands with all of us he sat down, and after a short interval of silence the chief, through his interpreter, signified a desire to hear me reply.
Our estimated distance from the Brazos is about sixty miles.
Our army have come from Ticonderoga down as far as Pawlet, about sixty miles, and expect to march to Stillwater very soon.
I have examined some of the red deer of this country at the distance of about sixty yards, and I find no other difference between them and ours than a shade or two in the color.
SIR,--I have this morning received certain information of the arrival of a hostile fleet in our bay, of about sixty sail.
These were inclined at an angle of about sixty--the pods of the sesame plants on one face, so that the frames resembled enormous brushes.
About sixty natives of Obbo accompanied the men sent by Ibrahim to carry the effects;--I require at least fifty, as so many of my transport animals are dead.
It is about sixty miles in diameter, and encloses an area of 2700 square miles, which is just about the area of Lincolnshire.
It is about sixty miles in diameter, only roughly circular in shape, and as it stands isolated upon the great ocean-bed it is most favourably situated for observation.
The driver, dismounting, knocked loud and long, until the door was opened by an exceedingly stout man of about sixty years of age; he held a dim light in his hand, and was dressed in a red nightcap and dirty striped shirt.
He might be about sixty years of age; his figure was very tall, but he stooped considerably, evidently from feebleness, and the pallid hue of ill-health overspread his emaciated features.
He was an elderly man, of about sixty, with nothing remarkable in his appearance or his features, which latter were placid and good-humoured.
He was a thin spare man, of about sixty-five, and was dressed in a black cloak of very coarse materials, nor were his other garments of superior quality.
It was not long before he came up to me and my new acquaintance, as we sat by the kitchen fire: he was a tall man of about sixty, but stooped much.
At Saint James I met with a kind and cordial coadjutor in my biblical labours in the bookseller of the place, Rey Romero, a man of about sixty.
He appeared to be about sixty-five, with a pale face and remarkably red nose.
About sixty yards to the west of the Cat-stone a large tumulus formerly stood, which was opened in 1824, and found to contain several complete skeletons, but nearly all traces of it have now disappeared.
While the narrowest part of St. George's Channel has a breadth of about sixty-five miles, the opposite coasts of the Mull of Cantyre and of Fair Head in the county of Antrim, are only fourteen miles apart.
The detachment at Battery St. John, about sixty men of Company A, was relieved by a detachment Fifteenth Massachusetts Battery, and returned to the regiment June 1st.
About sixty-five of the negro detachment were also sick and unfit for duty; seven of them died.
The Chief, who was a fine looking grey-bearded man of about sixty years of age, was dressed in velvet, and wore on his head a turban of embroidered silk.
The sultan, a man of about sixty years of age, is said to be very imbecile, and under the control of his ministers, who do with him as they please.
We landed on the small island, where we were received by about sixty natives, who did not appear well pleased at our intrusion, but knew that resistance to us would be useless.
Every now and then from among his converts there had started up one fitted to assist him in the work of itinerant propagandism, and the number of such had increased in 1654 to about sixty in all.
The fleet now consisted of about sixty vessels, and there were about 9000 soldiers on board, some of them veterans, but most of them recruits of bad quality.
In the midst of a grassy plain, about half a mile long, and nearly as much in breadth, about sixty or seventy fine elephants were drawn up in several ranks, each animal being provided with a mahawat and a hauda, which was empty.
He spoke in a firm though not a loud voice; in his person he was remarkably stout, but apparently not bloated or unwieldy; he appeared to be about sixty-five years of age.
The hall was lofty, wide, and well aired, and appeared to be about sixty or eighty feet in length, and of proportionate breadth.
The former had served in the American war, and appeared to be about sixty-five years of age; the latter is somewhat younger.
The Gens des Filles (girl band) was composed of about sixty tents, its head chief being Les Yeux Gris (Grey Eyes).
Its breadth, at the mouth, is about sixty paces, and it is said to be navigable by Mackinaw boats for 100 miles.
I crossed them and went through the rice country from Vercelli to Pavia, about sixty miles.
Not being able to do it, I made an excursion of three weeks into the rice country beyond the Alps, going through it from Vercelli to Pavia, about sixty miles.
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