 | Daniel Defoe - Fires - 1722 - 306 pages
...judge, it was about 40 Foot in Length, and about 15 or 16 Foot broad ; and at die Time I Jirft looked at it, about nine Foot deep; but it was faid, they...dug it near 20 Foot deep afterwards, in one Part of ir, till they could go no deeper for the Water : for they had it feems, dug feveral large Pits before... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 768 pages
...at the time I first looked at it, about uine feet deep : luit it was said they dng it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water; for they had itseems, dng several large pits before this: for tho' the plague was long a-coming to our parish, yet,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for (lie water ; for they had it seems, dug several large pits before this : for tho' the plague was long... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 772 pages
...and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : hut it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for (lie water; for they had it seems, dug several large pits before this: for tho* the plague was long... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said, they dug it nearly twenty feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, 'till they could go no deeper for the water : for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this ; for though the plague was long coming to our parish, yet... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - World history - 1835 - 750 pages
...the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : but it was said they duy it near twenty feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water ; for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this; for though the plague was long a coming to our parish, yet... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water; for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this: for though the plague was long a-coming to our parish, yet,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 pages
...the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near twenty feet deep afterwards in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water ; for they had, it teems, dug several large pits before this ; for though the plague was long а-coming to our parish,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near twenty feet deep afterwards in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water, for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this • for though the plague was long a-coming to our parish,... | |
 | Henry Peter Dunster - Children's literature - 1850 - 372 pages
...and at the time I first looked at it, about 9 feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water, for they had, it seems, dug several large pits before this ; for though the plague was long a coming to our parish,... | |
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... the plague was long a-coming to our parish, yet, when it did come, there was no parish in or about London where it raged with such violence as in the two parishes of Aldgate and Whitechapel. 
