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Example sentences for "great bend"

  • We had cut off a great bend of the Murray by our intricate journey among the lagoons; and had again reached the river precisely at the point most desirable.

  • We left this camp (named Camarba) and continued our journey around the great bend of the Lachlan at which point (4 1/2 miles from our camp) the low ridge of Kalingalungaguy closed on the river.

  • Particularly are they visible from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe track, as the cars thunder rapidly toward the city of Great Bend, in Kansas, three miles east of that town.

  • Footnote 22: About three miles east of the town of Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas.

  • About a mile beyond this is a small island on the north side of the river, and is called Lower island, as it is situated at the commencement of what is known by the name of the Grand Detour, or Great Bend of the Missouri.

  • Description of the Grand Le Tour, or Great Bend.

  • The river here made a great bend to the southeast, and he therefore directed his course, as well as he could, to the spot where he had directed Chaboneau and Gass to repair, and struck the river about three miles above their camp.

  • Larned is now a city of some importance, and a rival of Great Bend; it is the natural development of which old Fort Larned was the germ; it is built mainly on the N.

  • I understand that there was a certain "Pawnee trail" once well known from this village to Great Bend on the Arkansaw.

  • Larned, in the very suburbs of the present city of Great Bend.

  • I assended a hill and observed that the river made a great bend to the South, I concluded to walk thro the point about 2 miles and take Shabono, with me, he had taken a dost of Salts &c.

  • Madisens river makes a Great bend to the East and enters the Same mountain.

  • After travelling about eight miles in a north-west direction, we came upon the Peel, having thus cut off a great bend of the river.

  • After going two or three miles and finding no Arkansas, I returned to Great Bend to try another road.

  • While I was devouring my evening meal, on a little high stool in the one and only cafe of Great Bend, I was consoling myself with this prospect.

  • The market had fairly opened at Great Bend, and I was kept busy assisting Major Hunter until the arrival of the Uvalde beef herds.

  • One half this number were handled at Wichita, the surrounding country absorbing them to such an extent that when it came time to restock our Medicine River range I was compelled to go to Great Bend to secure the needed cattle.

  • The Santa Fe trail crossed the headwaters of several of its tributaries not far from the Great Bend.

  • About six miles below noon camp we go around a great bend to the right, five miles in length, and come back to a point within a quarter of a mile of where we started.

  • In the first stretch, where the gneiss is at the foundation, we have a great bend to the south, and in the last stretch, where the gneiss is below and the dead volcanoes above, another great southern detour is found.

  • Our camp is in a great bend of the canyon.

  • Undoubtedly found in Coahuila, and possibly crosses the Rio Grande in the region of the "Great Bend.

  • On limestone hills, in the "Great Bend" region of the Rio Grande in Texas, and southward into Coahuila.

  • Unless there has been a great change in levels, there must, therefore, have been some other outlet than the present for the waters collecting in the drainage basin to the north of Great Bend.

  • V In Kansas: the Second and Third Harvest Two miles north of Great Bend.

  • I have resolved to harvest at Great Bend.

  • I think I will harvest when I get to Great Bend.


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