At Oswego Falls (Rochester) a canal was proposed on the south side of the river, sixty-two chains in length, and with a fall of eighteen feet.
After examination, the canal board determined to make the canal seventy feet wide on the surface, seven feet deep; the locks were to measure 110 feet between quoins and be eighteen feet deep.
State Engineer Sweet proposed a ship canal across New York, eighteen feet in depth, in 1884.
Several of them measure from fifteen to eighteen feet in length, and are from five to six feet thick.
Some of the patriarchs are of enormous girth; even the younger ones have a circumference of eighteen feet; and the height is such that the birds which dwell among the upper branches are beyond the range of an ordinary fowling-piece.
MACY, Longford, Clay county: Have lived in Kansas fifteen years; have 150 apple trees nine years old, from fifteen to eighteen feet high.
Have an orchard of 1300 trees, planted twelve years, trees running from twelve toeighteen feet high.
A seine of fifteen or eighteen feet in length is then dragged down the river by two persons, and the bottom drawn up against the curtain of willows.
They are from twelve to eighteen feet in diameter at the widest part, and vary from four to eight feet in height,[668] which is sometimes increased by excavation.
These huts are about eight feet high, eighteen feet in diameter at base, the whole being covered with bark or brush and mud.
The dimensions of this enclosure are eleven by eighteen feet, and over the doorway on the outside is a stucco ornament which arrested Mr Stephens' attention from its resemblance to the 'winged globe' of the Egyptian temples.
Neither rooms nor corridors ever exceed twenty feet in width or height, while the ordinary width is eight to ten feet and the height fifteen to eighteen feet.
The trees, twelve to eighteen feet high, are planted in straight rows, fifteen feet apart.
It is fourteen feet wide at one end, and seventeen at the other, and has a depth of eighteen feet.
A fifth street, eighteen feet broad, was that of St. Francis Xavier, parallel to St. Peter.
It is square, twelve by eighteen feet in size, with a narrow passage leading to a smaller circular excavation on one side.
It is about forty-five feet square, with a recess in the rear twenty-five feet wide and about twelve feet deep, at the entrance of which are two pillars, eighteen feet high.
This business being compleated, the sawyers and carpenters began to erect a house for Lieutenant Cresswell, of eighteen feet long, by 12 feet wide, with a back part nine feet square.
The carpenters had now finished the new store-house: its dimensions were thirty feet long by eighteen feet wide, and ten feet under the eaves: the sides were covered with weather boarding, and the roof was shingled.
The frame consists of thirteen poles from fifteen to eighteen feet in length, which, after being tied together at the small ends, are raised upright with a twist so as to cross the poles above the fastening.
They are constructed in the following manner: two posts of split timber or more, agreeable to the number of partitions, are sunk in the ground, above which they rise to the height of fourteen or eighteen feet.
The side of the work next the stream is bounded by an abrupt natural bank, eighteen feet high.
They consist of small tumuli, generally raised about twelve or eighteen inches above the surface, and have the general form of an ellipse, measuring usually twenty-five by eighteen feet.
The underpinning of my cradle was exactly like the wooden underpinning of a house, and consisted of a parallelogram, eighteen feet by ten feet, with timbers of about eight inches square.
At one point the river-bed was cleft through its centre, to the depth of eighteen or twenty feet, by a chasm from fifteen to eighteen feet wide, into which the waters pour with considerable violence.
The pepper-tree is a small bush-like plant, which, when carefully trained, springs to a height of eighteen feet.
Yes, I understand that, and it's to be attached to an engine lever which will raise it eighteen feet, and then lower it eighteen feet.
You said as plain as could be, that the beam rose and fell eighteen feet.
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