The platform is quadrangular, every side nearly four hundred yards; the center is about six acres, surrounded by three ditches, each about eight yards over, at unequal distances; though upon a descent, it is amply furnished with water.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
The Royal Palace, like that at Christiania, is an exceedingly plain building, with a granite basement and stuccoed bricks above, forming an immense quadrangular edifice.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The building which is occupied by the hospital, or rather the series of buildings, forms a large quadrangular group on the north bank of the Moskva, half a mile east of the Kremlin.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou