Meanings of considerable tracts in English

White limy incrustations of this nature cover considerable tracts in northern Mexico.

His influence with the Maoris enabled him to buy considerable tracts of land.

The land is generally good, though there are considerable tracts of hard, thin soil.

Sometimes, as is the case with the bog-mosses and some arctic mosses, they may cover considerable tracts.

Their respective territories were still separated by considerable tracts, which were in the occupation of the Syrians, the Cappadocians, and the Armenians.

He'd purchased considerable tracts of land during his lifetime, and the profits that accrued from that investment had ballooned as London grew.

Went nosing about the Libyan desert, and found that considerable tracts of it have water-veins only a few yards beneath the surface.

Some of them are large enough to propel light machinery, or irrigate considerable tracts of land, but none of them are navigable.

But with the rise of the large banking-houses whose dealings are conducted through agents over considerable tracts of country, public opinion can no longer act.

Considerable tracts were covered with the Poplar-gum; and broad belts of Bricklow descended from the hills towards the east.