keele

Updated: June 23, 2025

In crossing the western ridge I mentioned the clay shale or keele formation, a section of which we have in the valley of the Quango: the strata there lie nearly horizontal, but on this ridge the granite seems to have been the active agent of elevation, for the rocks, both on its east and west, abut against it.

David Livingstone - Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

After a march of "about twelve leagues into the maine-land" the Maroons brought him to a river "that goeth to the South Sea." Here the party halted, and built themselves little huts of boughs to live in while they made themselves a ship. They cut down some trees here, and built themselves a pinnace "which was five and fortie foot by the keele."

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

Lieutenant Keele and those under him behaved most gallantly, destroying thirty of the enemy's war-boats and opening a heavy fire on the stockades, while the troops stormed and carried the fortress. The Burmese were next driven from Kemerdine, a fortified village above Rangoon.

William Henry Giles Kingston - How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves: Updated to 1900