The fields were neither circles, squares, parallelograms, nor triangles.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
So, to find the signs of ancient fields, look for them from a distance as you approach along the slope; then you will see squares and parallelograms dimly defined upon the sward by slightly raised and narrow banks, green with the grass that has grown over them for so many centuries.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Consequently at the present day the traveller who visits French Canada sees the whole country divided into extremely long and narrow parallelograms each with fences and piles of stones as boundaries in innumerable cases.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot