The left wing of the enemy, which was commanded by Phaeton himself, consisted of the Hippomyrmices; these are large birds, and resemble our ants, except with regard to size, the largest of them covering two acres; these fight with their horns and were in number about fifty thousand.

Before leaving the Spectacle Ponds, we visited a little island at the north end of the middle pond, containing perhaps half an acre.

On the high land north of James Town, by the road to Middle Plantation, I bought some acres of cleared soil, and had built for me a modest dwelling.

Suppose a man owned one hundred acres of land and gave you the right of way through it from one public road to another,that would leave him many acres for his own use on which you have no right to trespass.

Bartlett has sold sixty acres of his farm to Dr. Adam Matthews, for many years a prominent physician of Boston, who is going to build a good house on the land and become a citizen of Millville.

Sir Walter Raleigh was also given forty-two thousand acres near Spenser.

Misterton had cleared and planted about forty acres, enclosed with a barb-wire fence.

The temple of Apollo once occupied nearly half an acre of ground: a great many of its marble pillars are still to be seen, half buried by the plough, and corn growing over them.

On this land I labored with great diligence for two years, and shortly after purchased six acres more of land contiguous to my other.

THE COMMON OR WILD RABBIT.Warrens, or inclosures, are frequently made in favourable localities, and some of them are so large as to comprise 2,000 acres.

It should be a misdemeanor to chop down a tree, and a felony to clear an acre within its boundaries.

But Captain Rheid held up his head, declaring that his boys were good boys, and had always obeyed him; if they had left him to farm his hundred and fifty acres alone, it was only because their tastes differed from his.

In Illinois, Iowa, or Indiana, the farmer can grow rich while selling his corn for ten cents per bushel, and it is now common for a man and a boy to cultivate a hundred acres and to gather five thousand bushels in a single season.

An' we'll sow two thousand acres of winter wheat.

Even as far north as the Fresno, I counted 536 saplings and seedlings growing promisingly upon a piece of rough avalanche soil not exceeding two acres in area.

CHAPTER II "We've got over sixteen hundred acres in fallow ground, a half-section in rye, another half in wheatTurkey Redand this section you see, six hundred and forty acres, in Bluestem," said Kurt.

Since that day in the field, though my fences include no more acres, and I still plow my own fields, my real domain has expanded until I crop wide fields and take the profit of many curious pastures.

In 1772 Mr. Jefferson married a rich widow, who brought him forty thousand acres and one hundred and thirty-five slaves, so that he now took his place among the wealthy planters, although, like Washington, he was only a yeoman by birth.

I rented the land365 acres and I had seven families workin for me.

The site was a beautiful one, embracing fourteen acres, situated two miles southeast from the city, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad.

Another leased twenty-four acres.

"Fearing the consequences of emancipation, I reduced my cultivation in the year '34; but soon finding that my people would work as well as ever, I brought up the cultivation the next year to the customary extent, and this year ('36) I have added fifteen acres of new land.

Fontaine abbey possessed forty thousand acres of land.

She then had appreciation of the nature of a ten-hour day for workmen cutting eighteen acres of barley.

Fences of trees, brush, and even rails, enclosed, on this portion of the flats, quite fifty acres of land; and Indian corn, oats, pumpkins, peas, potatoes, flax, and several other sorts of seed, were already in the ground.