It formed a narrow strip, perhaps three hundred rods inwidth at the western end, running easterly for three miles and tapering off to a point at the Nashua River, by which stream it was entirely separated from Dunstable.
They stand opposite the greatest width of the lake and exposed to the greatest force of the heavy storms from the north.
From Washington Street, where it has a widthof thirty-one feet nine inches, it extends back one hundred and seventy-nine feet, and from the rear a wing runs northward to Williams Court forty feet.
There is a plain of variedwidth between Carmel and the shore.
Possibly this may not be a fair sample of the width of the mountain, as we may have passed over an unusually wide place.
It may, however, vary in width at different places, and no doubt does.
For crabs, the measurements are total length for zoeal stages and carapace length and width for postzoeal stages.
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is common in open water south of the ice but is also found throughout the entire width of the front.
Finding the valley of the river somewhat contracted in width and extremely circuitous, we ascended into the open country on the north side, and made our way across the hills, taking a course a little south of east.
Above the falls, the width of the river, that is of the space included between its two banks, varies from three hundred yards to two miles; below it is uniformly narrower, scarce exceeding four hundred yards.
As we {315} descended, we found it expand in some places to a width of near two miles.
The nails do not in the least diminish in width at the tip, but they become smaller towards that part only from diminishing from beneath.
Near the ninety-ninth meridian begins a wooded district known as the Cross Timbers; it varies in width from five to thirty miles, and is four hundred miles in length, extending from the Arkansas to the Brazos.
Length of the lateral leaf-lobes more than one-third the width of the leaf --7.
Length of the lateral leaf-lobes less than one-third the width of the leaf; acorn cup 2-2.
Experiments have shown this to be the case; but there is no great reduction in lifting power unless the distance apart is considerably less than the widthof the planes.
The mesilla itself terminates east and west in rocky ledges of inconsiderable height, and the wall stretches across its entire width of 39 m.
The width of each cell is the same in every section, to wit, from E.
The width of the rooms appears to be the same as that in the former section, whereas their length from N.
This wall itself is a double wall, each single one being of the size of the ordinary partition; the total width is therefore 0.
The Scheld is here about half the width of the Thames at Westminster; but Antwerp is above fifty miles from its mouth.
The Seine is in no part so much as half the width of the Thames, in some places not a fourth part, as it forms two islands, on one of which stands the original city of Paris.
The width of the strip depends on the water-content of the curd at this stage.
The strip of matting should be exactly the width and length of the table.
Within the river it appeared to be of a width of fifty yards.
Its length is one mile, its width at the water line thirty feet, its depth four feet.
The width of the broad tread was about four inches, and lighter tolls were exacted at the gates from broad than from narrow tread wagons for the obvious reason that narrow wheels cut deeper into the road than broad wheels.
After you have washed off the paper, get two boards, one a quarter or three eighths of an inch thick, and the other somewhat thinner, both being the width of the box.
This is very easily made of a cigar box, one of the low sort, the same width as your cars, but only half the height.
Differently-colored circles or rings, a little more than the width of an arrow, must be painted on this, with a centre twice the width of an arrow.
Fasten these firmly together, to the width of six feet, by three dressed cleats, six inches wide, one at each end and one in the middle, and do this on both sides.
The disk has a spiral opening cut in it of the same widthas the slot, as indicated by the dotted line.
The width of the border is perhaps a millimetre (1/25 inch), and the appearance lasts for something like a tenth of a second.
The recovered line was relaid across the Atbara, which is barely a third of the width of the Nile.
From the north to the south end along the river the camp was about one mile in length, and its greatest width about 1200 yards.
Then we wheeled to the left, towards Omdurman, and swept the country on the right front of the Sirdar over a width of four miles.
And when I climbed around the front, and a little way up the west side of the glacier, I found that it had swelled and increased in height and width in accordance with its advance, and carried away the outer ranks of trees on its bank.
We gained the west shore in about three hours; the width of the glacier here being about seven miles.
Then, tracing it down, I found it joined the same crevasse at the lower end also, maintaining throughout its whole course a width of forty to fifty feet.
E F is cut from a piece of paper as long as A B and about the width of a match-box.
The width of bridge a b must be equal to width of interior of box.
Make two sand-wheels the same size as the bicycle wheels; their width should be about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch.
Next cut a piece of cardboard the width of the match-box and long enough to leave a suitable distance between the two ends of the bridge to allow the match-box train to pass through, or two trains to pass each other.
Note the length of the edge of the candlestick is the width of the lantern E T.
If the length of 9 inches has been decided on, the width of the gondola should be 1-1/4 inches.
Place these in position between K and H, and measure distance between them; this gives widthof drawbridge; its length is 6-1/4 inches.
A strip of cardboard, the width of the door, is cut to form a gangway for the animals to enter the ark.
The arc of a circle of 4 inches to 4-1/2 inches radius is a good size; width of rocker, H K (Fig.
The width of the bottom of the car is 2 inches, the roof 2-3/4 inches; this allows for bending, and makes a curved roof.
Now, the roof must cover E F and F G and project about a 1/2 inch beyond E and G, so that the width of the roof must be 6 inches.
The whole ladder is then glued to a strip of wood, G H, 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch of a length equal to the total width of the ladder.
Father and son had traversed half the width of the cemetery, when they came to a spacious lot, surrounded by large trees and containing several monuments.
Accompanying them was a white man, in whose belt was stuck a revolver, and who carried in one hand a stout leather strap, about two inches in width with a handle by which to grasp it.
The tension of the lips has the effect of reducing the width of the slit or aperture between them and the width of the exciting current.
At Wye College, Kent, different systems of planting and training have been tried, the alleys varying in width from 10 ft.
Little distinction can then be drawn, and that with difficulty, from the comparative width of the haunches, and magnitude of the pelvis.
If the upper part of the chest be not relatively short and wide, and if it owe not its width rather to itself than to the size of the shoulders; because, this shows that the vital organs contained in the chest are not sufficiently expanded.
If the thighs of woman be not wider than those of man; because, the width of the female pelvis, and the purposes which it serves, require this.
It was this width of imagination that, for one thing, separated him from the ordinary theologian.
Good roads connected the ends and dissected the width and breadth of the great Roman Empire.
The plain between these ranges, through which the river flows, has a width of sixty or seventy miles.
It is about two hundred yards wide at its mouth, and is said to preserve this width for a long distance.
At the upper end the cañon is not more than half a mile wide, but its walls gradually expand three miles down, and the width gradually expands to nearly a mile at the lower end.
The wholewidth of the river cannot be less than three or four miles.
The width of the stream measured one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven feet, depth of channel five feet, and velocity three and a third miles an hour.
Mr. Thibaudeau describes the country from Split lake and extending to The Pas, ten miles in width on each side of the proposed route of the Hudson bay railway, as “a pulpwood belt”.
Twenty-seven miles below the confluence of the Yellowknife, and continuing to a short distance above the confluence of the Liard, the Mackenzie narrows to an average width of a little over half a mile, with a generally swift current.
From Great Slave lake to the sea the Mackenzie is an imposing stream, averaging about a mile in width with occasional expansions for long distances to twice this size.
Wherever possible the width of the river was determined by triangulation.
Its greatwidth gives it more the appearance of a lake than a river, and in no other part of the Mackenzie is the magnitude of the mighty volume of water which this river carries to the sea, impressed so forcibly on the mind.
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