The city of Nueva Valencia occupies a considerable extent of ground, but its population scarcely amounts to six or seven thousand souls.
We remarked with surprise, that the natural damn over which the river is precipitated, presents a dry space of considerable extent; where we stopped to see the boat go up.
The cotton plant and indigo are cultivated to a considerable extent, and they manufacture the wool of their sheep into good cloth, which is bartered with the people of the coast for rum, tobacco, European cloth, and other articles.
The burying places are outside the walls, and are of considerable extent.
It has been cultivated to a considerable extent in this country, and is esteemed by those who know it mainly for its early, rapid, and late growth, making it very well calculated as a permanent pasture grass.
Crossing, between different breeds, for the purpose of obtaining animals for the shambles, may be advantageously practised to a considerable extent, but not for the production of breeding animals.
The nutritive qualities of the grasses differ widely; and their value as feed for cows will depend, to a considerable extent, on the management of pastures and mowing-lands.
Even those of the same colour differ in size, and that to a considerable extent.
Before him, and stretching from the bottom of the hill, was a level tract of considerable extent.
Although the flood had, to a considerable extent, subsided, the river in most places was still beyond its banks; and this made it difficult for our travellers to find a place for their night-camps.
When the command devolved on Sir William Howe, this absurd system was abandoned, and an exchange[103] took place to a considerable extent.
The same may be said, to a considerable extent, of purely mental feelings.
This village is of considerable extent, and is inhabited exclusively by Turks.
The rock scenery was very imposing as we increased our altitude and arrived upon plateaux of considerable extent.
The effect of the larger size of the wedge provided by the bullet in increasing the length of secondary longitudinal fissures is well marked, and for the same reason the perforations are usually accompanied by fissures of considerable extent.
I seldom saw these bullets removed, but they were used to a considerable extent.
The track through the brain no doubt involved a considerable extent of the outer aspect of the right occipital lobe and the cuneate lobule.
One of these islands is of considerable extent, the other eight are scarcely better than large rocks; but though they are low and flat, they are well covered with wood, and abound with inhabitants.
Having disengaged ourselves from this fierce and unfriendly people, we pursued our course along the other islands, which are between twenty and thirty in number, and of considerable extent; one in particular would alone make a large kingdom.
At eleven o'clock at night, we fell in with another island of a considerable extent, flat, green, and of a pleasant appearance.
The St. Croix has two main branches, one inclines to the eastward, and communicates with a chain of lakes, some of which are of considerable extent, and lie near a branch of the Penobscot river.
Ship-building is likewise carried on to considerable extent.
Ship-building has also been lately revived here and prosecuted to a considerable extent.
Ship-building has also lately been commenced, and will probably be prosecuted to considerable extent as there are no want of good situations for launching, and abundance of timber.
The wings are longer than the tail for a considerable extent, by which our bird also evinces another character, in common with the long-winged Tachypetes, or Frigate bird.
At present however this is conjecture; but the space is of considerable extent and, if there is an opening into the interior of New Holland, it is in the vicinity of this part.
On the other hand, there was a considerable extentof country, extending from Jedburgh to Canobie, which was practically unfit for cultivation.
It will be found by a careful study of the history of the country that Border reiving was, to a considerable extent, the result of a concatenation of circumstances over which the inhabitants of these districts had little or no control.
When we turn our attention to the study of the causes which ultimately resulted in the abolition of Border reiving, we find that this desirable end was brought about, to a considerable extent at least, by a change of environment.
They occur to a considerable extent both on our own coasts and those of France, and have been used with good effect on some descriptions of soil.
The work is then, to a considerable extent, limited to the carpenter shop, cellar, or indoor work on new buildings.
He enjoys the privileges of public protection to life, property and the pursuit of happiness, but to a considerable extentis denied the privilege of representation in making laws and exercising the power of government.
These assignations were made in great numbers and of considerable extent in the period between the first and second war with Carthage, and again from the close of the latter till towards the end of this epoch.
Communities on the mainland might be deprived of the right of bearing arms and become tributary; this arrangement was already the case with certain Celtic districts on the Po, and was introduced to a considerable extent in after times.
The Roman army numbered little more than half that of the enemy, and was also to a considerable extent composed of Spaniards.
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