 | Europe - 1813 - 506 pages
...the bogs in the island, exclusive of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; IB its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the...bog, and of bogs under 500 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, we shall find about seventeen of them comprized within the great division we have now... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1813 - 504 pages
...the bogs in the island, exclusire of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; ii its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the...bog, and of bogs under 500 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, we shall find about seventeen of them comprized within the great division we have now... | |
 | 1813 - 502 pages
...centre of Ireland, with itt narrowest end. nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth ai it approaches to the western ocean. This great division...bog, and of bogs under 500 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, we shall find about seventeen of them comprized within the great division we have now... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1813 - 512 pages
...the Shannon from north to south}' and is thus divided into two parts ; of; these, the division to thg westward oF; the river contains more than double....suppose the whole' of the bogs of Ireland (exclusive &£' mere mountain bog, and of bogs tinder1 500 acres) to be divided into twentjk parts, we shall find... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1825 - 854 pages
...Sligo, comprizes within it about six sevenths of the bogs in the island, exclusive of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; in its form...bog, and of bogs under 500 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, we shall find about seventeen -of them comprized within the great division we have now... | |
 | 1836 - 562 pages
...division to the west of the river contains more than double the extent of bogs in the eastern division, so that if we suppose the whole of the bogs of Ireland (exclusive of mere mountainbogs, and of bogs of less extent than 800 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, twelve of... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 pages
...Shannon from north to south, and is then divided into two parts; of these the division to the west of the river contains more than double the extent...to the eastward ; so that if we suppose the whole bogs of Ireland (exclusive of mere mountain bogs and bogs under five-hundred acres), to be divided... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...Shannon from North to South, and is thus divided into two parts ; of these the division to the West of the river contains more than double the extent of the bogs which arc to be found in the division to the East. The engineers employed by the Cominis.°joiiers, though... | |
 | William Lewis Rham - Agriculture - 1855 - 522 pages
...to the west of i be river contains more than double the extent of bogs in the eastern division, to that if we suppose the whole of the bogs of Ireland (exclusive of mere mountain* bogs, and of bogs of less extent than 800 acres) to be divided into twenty parts, twelve of these parts... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...division to the west of the river contains more than double the extent of bogs in the eastern division, so that if we suppose the whole of the bogs of Ireland (exclcusive of mere mountain-bogs, and of bogs of less extent than 800 acres) to be divided into twenty... | |
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Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean. This great division of the island extending from east to west, is traversed by the Shannon from north to south, and is thus... 
