I only rode twenty-two miles, for the difficulty of riding on ice was great, and there is no blacksmith within thirty-five miles of Hall's Gulch.
The jagged Humboldt ranges flaming in the sunset, with snow in their clefts, though forty-five miles off, looked within an easy canter.
In the same way it shortened itself twenty-five miles at Black Hawk Point in 1699.
But even at this rattling gait I think we changed watches three times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long.
You could walk across there in fifteen minutes; but if you made the journey around the cape on a raft, you traveled thirty-five miles to accomplish the same thing.
In 1722 the river darted through that neck, deserted its old bed, and thus shortened itself thirty-five miles.
September 2nd--The distance from Vista Alegre to Baiao is about twenty-five miles.
It is upwards of ten miles in breadth at its mouth; opposite Cameta it is five miles broad.
The length of the Jaburu channel is about thirty-five miles, allowing for the numerous abrupt bends which occur between the middle and the northern end of its course.
It varies in width from three to five miles, but broadens rapidly near its termination, where it is eight or nine miles wide.
Ten hours some of them were out, their march being twenty or twenty-five miles; ten to fifteen was the average distance come.
He could see all the climes of the world at a single glance of the eye, and that glance would only pass over a distance of four orfive miles as the bird flies!
Fort Bridger, one hundred and seventeen miles from the South Pass, and one thousand and twenty-five miles from St. Joseph.
I do not object to the witness dragging a mountain forty-five miles to help the scenery under consideration, because it is entirely proper to do it, and besides, the picture needs it.
The waters of Genessaret are of an exceedingly mild blue, even from a high elevation and a distance of five miles.
We were twenty minutes passing through it, going at the rate of thirty to thirty-five miles an hour.
When I was a boy I somehow got the impression that the river Jordan was four thousand miles long and thirty-five miles wide.
In an hour they had traversed the hundred and twenty-five miles of the Korean strait, and while the typhoon was raging on the coast of China, the "Albatross" was over the Yellow Sea.
That proves that we must be going at a speed of seventy-five miles an hour.
She knew enough about steers, even at a distance of four or five miles, to realize that something was in the wind.
Wrangle did the twenty-five miles in three hours and walked little of the way.
And he realized that he must and would overtake Jerry Card in this straight course of five miles.
It is situated on the river Don, about sixteen miles above its junction with the Krishna, and sixty-five miles west of the point where the present railway between Bombay and Madras crosses the great river.
Mudkal, Tavurugiri, and Kanakagiri, a distance of about fifty-five miles, to Anegundi on the north bask of the river at Vijayanagar.
The Tungabhadra at this portion of its course may be considered as forming the arc, west to north, of a quarter circle having Adoni for its centre, the radius roughly measuring about twenty-five miles.
It has no fault, no blemish, no lack, except that there are only thirty-five miles of it instead of five hundred.
We had thirty-five miles to go and six hours to do it in, but it was plain that we were not going to make it.
Some Mongol horsemen reached Uliassutai the following day after great hardship and exertion, having made only twenty-five miles in forty-eight hours.
The Kosogol is a huge Alpine lake, deep and cold, eighty-five miles in length and from ten to thirty in width.
Although the monastery was fifty-five miles distant, by nine o'clock in the evening I entered the yurta of this holy Hutuktu.
For one thousand roubles I engaged a fisherman who agreed to take me fifty-five miles up the river to an abandoned gold mine as soon as the river, which had then only opened in places, should be entirely clear of ice.
With the exception of a wild pond or two, we saw nothing but rocks and stunted firs, for forty-five miles, a monotony unrelieved by one picturesque feature.
Five miles through a tamarack swamp brought us to the inlet of Unknown Pond, upon which we embarked our fleet, and paddled down its vagrant waters.
It was a good twenty-five miles there, over the worst road in the State we'd think it thirty before we got there.
It is distant some forty to forty-five miles, too long a journey for one day over such roads.
Although Livingston had previously ridden as a passenger on Morey's sternwheeler at the rate of five miles an hour, yet he had turned a deaf ear when his partner in experimentation, Nicholas J.
Here during the hot summer months they erected the Virginia Fort on the path from Virginia, upon the northern bank of the Little Tennessee, nearly opposite the Indian town of Echota and about twenty-five miles southwest of Knoxville.
Five miles east of this spot, where still may be seen a mound and an ellipse showing the outline of the stockade, is the famous Pilot Knob, from the summit of which the fields surrounding the town lie visible in their smooth expanse.
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