I rode to the north and east to seek a more suitable spot for an encampment, and having found a grassy flat and pool of good water one and a half miles higher up the creek, the party moved on to it at 4 p.
This river appears to be the Irwin River of Captain Grey, as this spot is only one and a half miles to the south of the position assigned to it on Arrowsmith's map of this part of the coast.
Followed the creek to the east and south for one and a half miles, when it changed to a salt creek, joining the Fitzmaurice River.
The open country beyond stretched for a distance of two and one-half miles up to the second German position (Hill 195, Butte de Tahure).
The French had penetrated the German lines on a front of over fifteen miles, and to a depth of two and a half miles in some places, between Auberive and Ville-sur-Tourbe.
The distance this last day was thirteen and a half miles.
On February 14, after a march of eleven and a half miles, we reached 80° S.
Our distance that day was only twelve and a half miles.
A vessel attempting to run the gauntlet of the batteries would be under fire while passing over a distance of three and a half miles.
As actually constructed, the lines were four and a half miles long, and ran in a semicircular sweep from the river near Ross Landing, below Port Hudson, to the impassable swamp above.
The length of the canal was about one and a half miles.
We hauled upon a wind immediately but could not fetch its lee, so anchored two and a half miles North-west by West from it.
But it was not considered expedient to waste more time upon the natives, so we turned back and walked along the eastern side of the island one and a half miles, with the boat in company outside.
The island is one and a half miles in length, by one in greatest breadth.
We fell near Neath, Glamorganshire, only one and a half miles short of the sea, completing a voyage which is a record in English ballooning--ten hours from start to finish.
Those who wish to walk can get off the car at Coomakista, and walk one and-a-half miles to Lord Dunraven's cottage, where they can meet the cars.
Portlaw, four and a half miles away, on the south bank of the Suir, was once the centre of a thriving cotton industry.
By nightfall our line ran from Neby Samwil to the east of Beit Iksa, through Lifta to a point about one and one-half miles west of Jerusalem, whence it was thrown back facing east.
It drove hostile parties from Kostul, two and one-half miles east of Kuryet el Enab, and secured this ridge.
Two and one-half miles southeast of the city is "Washington's Masonic Cave," where it is said George Washington and other prominent men held Masonic meetings.
Two and one-half miles east of Little Falls is where the boyhood home of General Herkimer stood.
The fortified camp of the Americans lay about one and one-half miles below, in a parallel line, from the British.
Milton is situated on Wood river (a very small stream opposite the mouth of the Missouri river and within one and a half miles of the Mississippi).
Whilst our horses were resting we walked to the celebrated springs, a distance of one and a half miles.
The Colorado, two and a half miles in width, rushes into this Gulf with great force, lashing as it goes the small islands lying at its mouth, and for many leagues around the waters of the Gulf are discolored by its turbulent flood.
That portion of its course which is occupied by Grand island has an average breadth, from shore to shore, of two and a half miles.
Between the streams is a low rich prairie extending from their confluence eighteen miles westwardly to the bordering hills, where it is five and a half miles wide.
Meanwhile, on the water of the Sound, two and a half miles south of Plymouth Town, a number of buoys were moored in two parallel lines, extending over a distance of one thousand two hundred yards, east and west.
The distance from the starting-point to Manchester is thirty-five and a half miles, and over most of these the river itself was followed.
One of the tunnels was no less than four and a half miles long, and another two and a half.
Having marched that day fourteen and a half miles in a drenching rain, we descended into a large valley.
After travelling some two and a half miles westward of the Taklakot track we declined to proceed any farther in that direction.
We had accomplished three and a half miles, with four distinct rapids run and one "let-down.
The river above had held a continual descent accelerating here and retarding there with an average current of two and a half miles an hour, but here began the quick drops for which the canyons are now famous.
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