On either hand are low clay banks (no rocks are visible), and from these the forest rises to a uniform height of seventy or eighty feet.
The vessel in which I embarked was from seventy to eighty feet in length, and perhaps eight or nine in breadth, sharp built; having three long brass cannon, highly ornamented with silver, inlaid in fanciful devices.
Trunks which grow in forests prune themselves well, and are usually clear of limbs from forty to eighty feet.
The tree attains a height of from forty to eighty feetand a diameter of three.
Under favorable conditions it attains a height of sixty or eighty feet and a diameter of two.
Trees are from fifty to eighty feet high, and from fifteen to twenty inches in diameter.
But, on going northwards to the boundary of Tobyhanna township, we at once struck a large line of accumulations, stretching from east to west, and rising to a height of seventy or eighty feet.
That at the surface, over which the water now plunges, consists of hard limestone, seventy or eighty feet in thickness, and this is continuous from the falls to the face of the escarpment at Queenston, where the river emerges from the gorge.
The secondary building, corresponding to the Annex, at first known as the Extension, was built before the main structure: it is eighty feet by thirty-six and lies north of the Temple.
The size of the first large room is one hundred and twenty feet long by eighty feet wide; the height reaches nearly to the second string course.
The room pictured in the accompanying plate is one hundred and twenty feet long, eighty feet wide, and thirty-six feet high.
The Main Assembly Room, which with its vestries and the end corridors occupies the whole of the fourth floor, is one hundred and twenty by eighty feet in area, and thirty-six feet in height.
A swift run ends in a descent ofeighty feet in one-third of a mile.
Mendongs and chaits are very numerous, some of great size; and there are also the ruins of two very large temples, near which are some magnificent weeping cypresses, eighty feet high.
The village contained about one hundred houses, irregularly crowded together, from twenty to forty feet high, and forty to eighty feet long; each accommodating several families.
The larger one is called “the palace” by our fanciful authority, and is represented to be eighty feet long by seventy-five broad.
Another class of works, probably akin to those here noticed, are the parallels, consisting of slight embankments seven or eight hundred feet in length and sixty or eighty feet apart.
Along the western wall runs the bank of a plain, elevated a number of feet above the level of the work, upon the very brow of which is situated an outwork (A) eighty feet wide by two hundred and eighty in length.
In some places it is seventy or eighty feet wide, and from twenty-five to thirty feet deep.
On the northern slope, near the foot, is the entrance to two galleries, one of which terminated at the distance of eighty feet.
But there is also a truncated mound, fifty by eighty feet, and nine feet high.
In this case, though the difference in level between the second and third terrace is but seventeen feet, these ancient people laid out a graded ascent some ten hundred and eighty feet long, by two hundred and ten feet average width.
Passing through the doorway e we enter the court 1, the dimensions of which are about seventy by eighty feet, its pavement, like that of the other courts, being eight or ten feet below that of the corridors.
The western court, 2, measuring about thirty by eighty feet, has a narrow stairway of three steps at l, leading up to the central building C.
Of the two supporting rectangular terraces, the lower is one hundred and fifty by two hundred and twenty-three feet, and the upper is fifty-five by eighty feet.
The thickness of the gravel forming these fringes, on a rude average, may be said to vary from thirty to sixty or eighty feet; but near the mouths of the valleys it was in several places from two to three hundred feet.
A stratum, eighty feet thick, of hard and very compact impure whitish limestone, weathering bright red, with included layers brecciated and re- cemented.
The bluffs under which we passed were composed of a blackish clay and coal for about eighty feet, above which for thirty or forty feet is a brownish yellow earth.
We passed two large islands and an extensive prairie on the south, beginning with a rich low land, and rising to the distance of seventy or eighty feet of rolling clear country.
On the south is a prairie which rises gradually from the water to the height of a bluff, which is, at four miles distance, of a whitish colour, and about seventy or eighty feet high.
It attains to the height of seventy or eighty feet, and often measures from nine to ten feet in circumference three and four feet from the ground.
Loudon mentions one which, standing near a pond, had in twenty years attained the height of eighty feet, with a trunk eight feet in circumference at three feet from the ground, and a head of the diameter of forty-eight feet.
Hundreds of contracts, calling for a width of eighty feet, can be given as evidence of the original width of the road.
The proper limits of the road are hereby defined to be a space of eighty feet in width--forty feet on each side of the center of the graded road-bed.
The portage-road is six miles in length, leading nearly all the way close along the edge of the North Bluff, which, owing to a recession of the mountains, seems here only from fifty to eighty feet in height.
It was three stories high, and, I was told, eighty feet in width and a hundred and ten in depth.
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