The basic unit of land grant was the township, which was a square area measuring six miles on each side.
In the years after the collapse of Communism in 1991, Ms. Grimsted said, the Russians would point to the Smolensk files as a reason for their refusal to return those from other countries -- in particular, the vast collection of documents, said to measure four miles in shelf space, that had been taken by the Nazis from Paris and were later captured by the Red Army.
As another step, East Germany established elaborate security measures three miles in depth along its eight-hundred-and-sixty-mile border with West Germany.
A sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, measuring six nautical miles in length, was reported on the water nearby.
A sheen of between two and 23 tonnes of gas condensate, and measuring six nautical miles in length, has been reported on the water nearby, and Total has activated its Oil Pollution Emergency Plan.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 had created six-mile-square townships divided into 36 sections, each measuring one square mile, or 640 acres.
For an island that only measures nine miles by five, there are an awful lot of roads to ramble.
Anguilla measures sixteen miles by three miles and there is only one grass running track on the island which Zharnel first trained on.
Nineteen miles long, the island measures six miles across at its widest points and three miles across on the isthmus.
It measures three and a half miles long by two and a half miles wide and consists, to the west and north, of five mighty hills that rise at their peak to more than 1,300ft and end, abruptly, in the highest cliffs in the country: lob a pebble off the top and it will hit the waves below 11 seconds later.
