At D, is the gallery of discharge for the waters, which serves also to ventilate the mine, being cut to the day, through 936 toises of syenitic porphyry and gneiss.
I found it to be one hundred and thirty-six toises broad.
This hill is scarcely elevated one hundred toises above the neighbouring plains.
They are found in Lapland in summer, at three or four hundred toises high, and at a temperature of 11 or 12 degrees.
In some parts the river is bordered by forests on each side, and forms a straight canal a hundred and fifty toises broad.
The Temi is only eighty or ninety toises broad, but in any other country than Guiana it would be a considerable river.
It is more than two thousand six hundred toises broad, and it runs without any winding, like a vast canal, straight toward the east.
The course of these rivers once led me to believe, that the plains formed table-lands, raised at least from one hundred to one hundred and fifty toises above the level of the ocean.
You see a canal two hundred toises broad, bordered by two enormous walls, clothed with lianas and foliage.
The Grand Cerf is but a couple of hundred toises to your right.
It is hidden in the forest not three hundredtoises from here.
He did not see that a quadrilateral measuring fifty toises by thirty must need some protection midway in its longer curtains, and more especially on the riverside.
Cassini found the parallel which passes through St. Malo to be shorter by one thousand and thirty-seven toisesthan it would have been on a spherical earth.
But Sound, as I have said above, only travels 180 toisesin the same time of one second: hence the velocity of Light is more than six hundred thousand times greater than that of Sound.
For Sound, according to what I have observed, travels about 180 Toises in the time of one Second, or in about one beat of the pulse.
At about a gun-shot distance from it rises the highest pine-head of the mountain, called Caval Hernot, which is eighty toises higher than any other cone, and three thousand three hundred paces from the convent below.
He took the precaution of comparing his standard with that of the French, so that his result was expressed in toises (the length of the toise is about 6.
The level ground on the top mountain which rises above Bounar-bachi, and on which it has been attempted to trace the contour of the walls of ancient Ilium and of its citadel, is more than 3200 toises in circumference.
These springs have since been seen by many travellers; they are situated at the foot of a small hill on which is Bounar-bachi, and about 6500 toises in a straight line from the mouth of the Menderé.
The alluvial deposit has now extended the mouth of the Menderé 3400 toises from the ruins where the measurement indicated the position of New Ilium.
On the following day, more than forty toises of the dyke were carried away, and a fleet of small wine-vessels from the neighboring country entered the harbor without difficulty.
We found ourselves to be at 533 toises of absolute elevation, or a little higher than the bottom of the cavern of Guacharo.
The castle is only thirty toises above the level of the water in the gulf of Cariaco.
The circular summit of the peak of Teneriffe is only a hundred toises in diameter.
According to a barometric calculation, the site of the hacienda is only fifty toises above the bed of the Rio Guayra at La Noria, near Caracas.
On the road to Las Vueltas we see for the first time the capital, situated three hundred toises below, in a valley luxuriantly planted with coffee and European fruit-trees.
Near the equator we find it from the plains to the height of 700 toisesabove the level of the sea.
This plain, through which runs the Rio Guayra, is at the elevation of four hundred and fourteen toises above the level of the sea.
Ohio, and the fossil elephants of the Susquehanna, in the temperate zone), but on table-lands having from six to fourteen hundred toises of elevation.
They are nearly perpendicular, intersecting all the mica-slate strata, and are from six to eight toises thick.
The most eastern of these valleys, containing the capital of Caracas, is 200 toises higher than the western valley, which may be considered as the centre of agricultural industry.
A detachment of arquebusiers, marching down from the camp, fixed palisades within thirty toises of the walls, whence they fired upon the defenders of the ramparts.
My approaches are now within a few toises of the moat.
On the side of a hill on the north, about four hundred toises from the walls, stood the chapel and hospital of Saint Lazare, and it was under their shelter that Bourbon and Pescara fixed their tents.
This consisted of four wrought-iron bars, each two toises (rather more than 13 ft.
A zinc bar is laid on an iron bar two toises long, both bars being perfectly planed and in free contact, the zinc bar being slightly shorter and the two bars rigidly united at one end.
They had not gone a hundred toises from the shore when they were perceived by the custom-house officers, who set out in pursuit of them, and brought them back again.
This rapid descent greatly amused us, and we were only stopped by the mud which succeeded the snow at the distance of five or six hundred toises down the declivity.
The lake is not deep, but seldom freezes, although it is thirty-one toises more elevated than that of Geneva.
The elevation of Geneva (187 toises above the Mediterranean) together with the proximity of the Alps, and of the mountains of Jura, cause winters to be long, and often severe.
Its form is a parallelogram of four hundred and fifty toisesin length by one hundred and fifty in breadth.
The portal, which looks towards the country, is thirty toises in extent.
However this may be, the extent of these Old Boulevards is two thousand four hundred toises from the Rue de la Concorde to the Place de la Liberté, formerly the site of the Bastille.
They are three thousand six hundred and eighty-three toises in extent from the Observatoire to the Hôtel des Invalides.
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