 | 1881 - 978 sider
...sites, but their guns pointed in nearly the opposite direction. The works around the town were protected on the right by a deep ravine, and on the left by the head of Wormeley Creek, which set in from the river below. At the mouth of the ravine 011 the right,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1881 - 984 sider
...sites, but their guns pointed in nearly the opposite direction. The works around the town were protected on the right by a deep ravine, and on the left by the head of Wormeley Creek, which set in from the river below. At the mouth of the ravine on the right,... | |
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Tehran, and are made as follows:—A pan is dug in the earth, say a hundred and fifty feet long, twenty broad, and eighteen inches deep. With the earth taken from this, a wall thirty feet high is erected, and behind are pits for storing the ice, which... 