"Lake Nares is only two and a half miles long, and its greatest width is about a mile; it is not deep, but is navigable for boats drawing 5 or 6 feet of water; it is separated from Lake Bennet by a shallow sandy point of not more than 200 yards in length.

The width at the crest is only 2 ft. 8 in., although surmounted by a heavy coping of bluestone 3 ft. 3 in.

Nautica insisted that the width had been ten paces because a woman, Mrs. An.

They were able to see right across the island, and estimated the width to be not more than ten leagues.

At any moment a fissure might open, and its width might be an inch or several yards.

The average width is about 150 yards.

In all this distance of perhaps two miles there was only one place where I could possibly jump it, but the width of this jump was the utmost I dared attempt, while the danger of slipping on the farther side was so great that I was loath to try it.

The height of this hole was some twenty feet, having an arch above it, and its width may have been thirty.

For me, its easy width was an avenue through which nameless slums across the river sent creeping messages of depression, and I always regarded it as Winter's main entrance into Londonfog, slush, gloom trooped down it every November, waving their forbidding banners till March came to rout them.

A West 3/4 North course led through, and the least water was five fathoms on a bar at the eastern entrance, where the width is only three-tenths of a mile, whilst in the western it is one mile, with a depth of seventeen fathoms.

The average width is between a half and three quarters of a mile, but there are many expansions where it is over a mile in breadth; however, in these places it cannot be said that the waterway is wider than at other parts of the river, the islands being so large and numerous.

The width of the hall is about forty feet, and the length of it about fifty-four feet.

in diameter, and the width of the driving belts is 18 cm.

The width, from rock to rock, speaking only of visible things, might have been thirty fathoms; and this strait narrowed, rather than widened, for several hundred feet, until it was reduced fully one-third.