 | Europe - 1816 - 890 pages
...the highest mountain in the island, where upwards of 1600 persons were assembled, and from whence, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, they had a view of the united kingdom of England and Ireland, with the seventeen parishes of the lordship... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1827 - 302 pages
...estimated at 2800 feet above the level of the sea ; and at the latter, on the road leading to Grand Etang, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, among terrestrial mosses, in a very exposed situation. This, therefore, notwithstanding that it has... | |
 | William Ogilvie Porter - Caribbean Area - 1831 - 260 pages
...most happy to meet us again ; for a few days of separation in a strange land appears an age. Alter resting, and dressing, and dining, we walked out in...Sir Charles told me we were now at an elevation of two thousand foot above the level of the sea ; that the Rio Nuevo takes its rise here from the fine... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Gold mines and mining - 1852 - 702 pages
...preys upon the kernel of the grain, and the crop is somewhat precarious ; but the weevil is unknown at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and in such situations the grain can be kept for any period. All this sufficiently indicates that the... | |
 | Natural History Society of Dublin - Natural history - 1860 - 178 pages
...stems or caudices. The true T. pyxidiferum of Jamaica grows abundantly in the Island of St. Vincent's, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, thus showing that this tribe in the tropics affect a much higher elevation, where the temperature,... | |
 | Robert Edmund Scoresby Jackson - 1862 - 536 pages
...Gave de la Pique, near the Spanish frontier, twenty-two miles south-south-west from St Gaudens, and at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea. The springs of Luchon were highly esteemed by tinItomans, who erected baths there, and dedicated them... | |
 | William Wilkins - Geology - 1863 - 148 pages
...miles, though its dimensions vary considerably with. £b,e nature of the seasons. Although situated at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, this lake receives the drainage of a considerable extent of country on its eastern and southern banks.... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - New South Wales - 1875 - 564 pages
...the kernel of the grain, and the crop is, therefore, somewhat precarious ; hut the weevil is unknown at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and in such situations the grain can be kept for any period. All this sufficiently indicates that the... | |
 | Isaac Burney Yeo - Health resorts - 1885 - 676 pages
...is said to have many natural advantages ; it is situated in a depression of the Lesser Atlas range, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea. It possesses hot springs, adapted to the treatment of rheumatism and allied affections, which were... | |
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... persons were assembled, and from whence, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the level of the sea, they had a view of the united kingdom of England and Ireland, with the seventeen parishes of the lordship of Mann lying at their feet like a beautiful... 