Furlong claims that the plot came close to succeeding.
Furlong valued them as one of the scientific highlights of the colonial past he was reconstructing.
To-day, those three furlongs have shrunk to three yards, and the 600 families have increased to over 60,000 electors.
We still have that last furlong to travel.
We did not at the time know how far ahead we were, but we were furlongs ahead of them and miles ahead of everybody else.
This charge covers a line measuring three miles one furlong.
It is a chain, a cricket pitch by a furlong.
The rental quoted covers a line measure two miles five furlongs.
