This district contains two lakes, one called San Pablo, is three miles long, and a mile and a half broad, abounding with wild geese, and gives rise to the Rio Blanco.
At Coari, where the groups of isles terminate for a short space, the river is nearly a mile and a half broad, and M.
The flat along the Burdekin was about two miles and a half broad, and was skirted by silver-leaved Ironbark ridges.
The bed of the river, an immense sheet of sand, was full a mile and a half broad, but the stream itself did not exceed thirty yards in width.
The basaltic dyke was about a mile and a half broad, and I followed it about five miles up the river.
The oysters, seven in number, include individuals of six years' growth, and the two largest are four inches long and three inches and a half broad.
But there are also two lateral currents--one on the European, and one on the African side; each of them about two miles and a half broad, and flowing at about the same rate as the central stream.
In the territory of San Fili this observer found a new ravine, half a mile in length, two feet and a half broad, and twenty-five feet deep; and another of similar dimensions in the territory of Rosarno.
There is among other samples an ancient pallampoor, five French yards long, and two and a half broad, said to be the labour of Hindoo princesses, which must have taken a lifetime to execute.
These scaly portions are nearly an inch and a half broad, two inches and a half long, and about one-sixth of an inch thick in the middle.
In making tubes of an inch of internal diameter, a skelp four inches and a half broad is employed.
The Rose Starling is from eight and a quarter to eight and three-quarter inches long, and from sixteen to eighteen and a half broad; the wings measure three inches and a quarter.
It measures six inches in length, is two inches and a half broad at the centre, and five inches between the tips.
It is thirteen inches high by six inches and a half broad.
It is twelve inches long, seven and a half broad at the ears, and weighs nearly nine pounds.
The latter is three inches [p165] long, one and a half broad, and three fourths of an inch in thickness, and weighs five ounces.
The leaves of the former are about three feet long, a foot and a-half broad, and deeply serrated; while those of the latter are not much larger than the leaves of our own apple-trees.
It is a block of about four feet in length, two and a half broad, and one foot thick; {185} it is very transparent.
The lake measured about two leagues long, by a league and a half broad at the widest part, but the water was very shallow everywhere.
The capa is a long robe of guanaco furs, about five and a half feet long, by four and a half broad.
After we had gone some way, Isidoro and Garcia and myself rode ahead of the horses, in order to look out for ostriches, Isidoro taking one side of the canada, which was about a mile and a half broad, and Garcia and myself the other.
They are cultivated in the following manner; the earth is raised in little hills or high furrows about a foot and a half broad, that by draining the moisture, the roots may have a better relish.
Fruit, small, two inches high, and about two and a half broad at the base; roundish-ovate.
Fruit, about the medium size, two inches and a half broad, and two inches high; roundish, sometimes oblate.
Fruit, small, two inches and a half broad, and two inches high; roundish, and narrowing towards the apex.
Each buddle is twelve feet long, one cubit deep, and a foot and a half broad.
Elephants, buffaloes, and zebras grazed in large numbers on the long sloping, banks of a river called Chiséra, a mile and a half broad.
We went along a rivulet till it ended in a small lake, Mapampa or Chimbwé, about five miles long, and one and a half broad.
The pileus is two to three inches long and an inch and a half broad.
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