 | Tobias Smollett - 1773 - 506 Seiten
...and I make no doubt but that they would fu'pply the Botifli navy with the beft malls in the wprlJ. Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference; fo that four men, joining hand in hand, could... | |
 | Giovanni Ignazio Molina - 1808 - 308 Seiten
...that were excellent food." " On each side of Sedger river there are the finest trees I ever saw." " Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference ; so that four men, joining hand in hand, could... | |
 | Amasa Delano - 1817 - 622 Seiten
...trees 1 ever saw, and I make DO doubt but that they woulj supply the British navy with the best masts in the world. Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference ; so that four men, joining hand in hand, could... | |
 | 1822 - 782 Seiten
...make no doubt but that they would supply the British navy with the best masts in the world : 8ome«f them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference ; so that four men joining liana in hand could... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 770 Seiten
...ever saw ; and I make no •doufct but that they would supply the British navy with the best masts in the world : some of them are of a great height, and •mone than eight feet in diameter, which is •proportionably more than eight yards in •circumference... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 524 Seiten
...trees I ever saw, and I make no doubt but that they would supply the British navy with the best musts in the world. Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference ; so that four men, joining hand in hand, could... | |
 | James Weddell - 1825 - 328 Seiten
...trees I ever saw, and I make no doubt but that they would supply the British navy with the finest masts in the world. Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference, so that four men, joining hand in hand, could... | |
 | James Weddell - 1827 - 374 Seiten
...trees I ever saw, and I make no doubt but that they would supply the British navy with the finest masts in the world. Some of them are of a great height,...proportion ably more than eight yards in circumference, so that four men, joining hand in hand, could not compass them. Among others, we found the pepper tree,... | |
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British navy with the best masts in the world. Some of them are of a great height, and more than eight feet in diameter, which is proportionably more than eight yards in circumference; so that four men, joining hand in hand, could not compass them: among... 