 | 1813 - 506 էջ
...island, exclusive of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; IB its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean. This great... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1813 - 504 էջ
...island, exclusire of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; ii its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean. This great... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 էջ
...between them nearly six-sevenths of all the bogs in the island. This extensive tract resembles h» its form a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland,...convinced that it was perfectly practicable to drain these bogs and convert the land' to the purposes of tillage, and that the return from the drained land would... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - 854 էջ
...island, exclusive of mere mountain-bogs and bogs of less extent than 500 acres ; in its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean. This great... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 էջ
...2,330,000 acres, English. These bogs, for the most part, lie together. In form, they resemble a great broad belt, drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extendingin breadth as it approaches the Western Ocean. The bog of Allan... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 էջ
...resemble a great broad belt, drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches the Western Ocean. The bog of Allan is not one contiguous morass, but this name is indiscriminately applied to a great number... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1830 - 524 էջ
...Wicklow Head to Galway, and another drawn from Howth Head to Sligo. This portion in its form resembles a broad belt, drawn across the centre of Ireland,...extending in breadth as it approaches the western ocean. This great division of the island, extending from east to west, is traversed by the Shannon from north... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 812 էջ
...continuous, forming a great broad belt across the centre of the country, with its narrowest end towards the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches the western ocean. The owners never considered it practicable to reclaim much of the soil by draining these böge. the surface... | |
 | 1839 - 760 էջ
...included between a line drawn from Wicklow Head to Galway, and another drawn from Howth Head to Sligo, and resembles in its form a broad belt drawn across the centre of the island, its narrowest end being nearest the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 էջ
...broad belt drawn across the VOL. x. NO. Xx. LL centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches the Western Ocean. This great division of the island extending from east to west, is traversed by the Shannon from north... | |
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... its form resembling a broad belt drawn across the centre of Ireland, with its narrowest end nearest to the capital, and gradually extending in breadth as it approaches to the western ocean. 
