| Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...join the ocean and the harbour. Within this defence they «refted their fort, planting upon h fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour,...was a mountain a mile high, on which they placed a watch-houfc, which, in the rarified air within the tropics, fb favourable for viikm, gave them an immenfe... | |
| John Dalrymple - Great Britain - 1788 - 408 pages
...join the ocean and the harbour. Within this defence they erected their fort, _ planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour, there was a mountain 3 mile high, on which they placed a watch-houfe, which, in the rarified air within the tropics, fo... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1790 - 646 pages
...join the ocean and the harbour. Within this defence they creeled their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour,...on which they placed a watch-houfe, which, in the rarified air within tha tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave them an immenfe range of profpeft,... | |
| History - 1790 - 566 pages
...join the ocean and the harbour. Within this defence they erefted their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour,...high, on which they placed a watch-houfe, which in the rarified air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave them an immenfe range of profpecl,... | |
| Sir John Dalrymple - Great Britain - 1790 - 746 pages
...join the ocean •nd the harbour. Within this defence they erocted their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour...on which they placed a watch-houfe, which, in the rarified air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave them an immenfe range of profpeft,... | |
| History - 1790 - 562 pages
...join the ocean and the harbour. Wiihin this defence they crcfted their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the; other fide of the harbour, there was a mountain a mile high, on which they pl..ced a watch-houfe, which in the rarified air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave... | |
| English literature - 1788 - 678 pages
...Within this defence they erected their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other Gde of the harbour there was a mountain a mile high, on which they placed a watchhoufe, which, in the rarified air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave them an immenfe range of profpect,... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 572 pages
...Within this defence they creeled their f'Tt, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other £dc of the harbour there was a mountain a mile high, on which they placed a walch-houfe, which, in the rarefied air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, give them an... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1799 - 576 pages
...the ocean and and the harbour. Within this defence they erected their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour...rarefied air within the tropics, fo favourable for vifion, gave them an immenfe range of profpedl to prevent all furprife. To this place, it was obferved... | |
| 1788 - 772 pages
...harbour. Within tibia defence they erected their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. Oa the other fide of the" .harbour, there was a mountain a mile high, on which they placed a watch houfe, wlm.h, in the Tariffed air within the tropics, fo favourable fir vifion, gave them an... | |
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