In the common opinion it is 25 leagues long by 12 in breadth.
These five islands produce cloves, but no kind of food; and the large island of Batochina, which is 60 leagues long, produces food but no cloves.
The Andes of South America bound the plains of the Orinoco, the Amazon, and the Rio de la Plata, on the west, like a rocky wall raised across a crevice 1300 leagues long, and stretching from south to north.
This system of mountains, which is 160 leagues long,* is a prolongation of the eastern Cordillera of the Andes of Cundinamarca.
In the afternoon he returned, reporting that the opening formed a narrow island 6 leagues long, running N.
This island is very flat, and about 6 leagues long.
This strait is not more than 8 or 10 leagues long, and communicates with the sea which waters the northern coasts of Siberia.
The sea of Marmora, which is below the Black Sea, is a smaller lake than the Palus Meotis, being not more than 50 leagues long and 8 or 9 broad.
This island is about 9 or 10 leagues long, mountainous and woody, with many savannahs, and some spots of land which seemed to be cleared.
It is about 2 or 3 leagues long, and at the south-west point there is another small low woody island about a mile round, and about a mile from the other.
About 5 leagues to the southward of this there is another island which is called William Schouten's Island and laid down in our charts: it is a high island and about 20 leagues long.
It is about 3 leagues long and 2 miles wide, more or less.
It is about 3 Leagues long, and a League wide, lying as the other.
It is about 8 or 10 Leagues long, mountainous and woody.
It is about 7 or 8 Leagues long, and about two Leagues wide; and it lies almost N.
This Isle is about 4 Leagues long, and one League and a half wide, stretching North and South.
The greatest rivers in Africa are Senegal, which is 1125 leagues long, comprehending the Niger, which in fact is a continuation of it, and the source of Gombarou, which falls into the Niger.
The Sirderious, which is about 400 leagues long, and falls into Lake Aral.
The Nile 970 leagues long, and which derives its source in Upper Ethiopia, where it makes many windings.
Of the wonderfull buildings in this kingdome, and of mightie wall or circuit in the same of 500 leagues long.
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