If we turned inland our way was on a road double-lined with cocoa palms, or up some tangled dell where a silvery cascade leaped through the deep verdure.
The inland view to the south is far from destitute of beauty, though less striking than the northern scene.
Besides the dangers of famine, Nearchus had to contend with legions of whales, many of them one hundred and fifty feet long,--a prodigious size for inland seas like the Persian Gulf.
The modern methods of canning have opened a so much wider market, the whole inland country being thus opened to the supply, it is almost impossible to overstock the market.
In spite of ice and disturbances among his crew, which at times assumed the character of a mutiny, he pushed on into the great inland sea known as Hudson's Bay.
Africa and Asia are joined together in the South, and the Indian Ocean is an inland sea.
The extent of its surface amply justified him in these expectations, for it is the largest inland sea in the world, with the exception of the Mediterranean.
The palace, which was built of white marble, stood upon an island in a lake or inland sea.
Genoa, Pisa, Florence, Venice, covered the waters of theirinland sea with sails, trafficking from the ports of Italy to those of Syria and Egypt.
She wore a plain, neat black dress, such as a self-respecting woman might wear to church in some small inland city.
One of them, The Union Electric, had the trolleys and the street lighting; the other had been longer on the ground, was called The Transport Company, and owned the inland railroad and the principal line of steamers in the harbour.
I have only once, and that was six years ago, looked over the country inland from the top of these dunes; but I distinctly remember having seen a farmhouse, or something of the sort, in that direction.
There were very few among the holders of its smallinland farms who had not saved a little money.
Much of this inland channel is narrow and crooked, running for long distances through immense marshes, where the passage was alike solemn and slow.
The tide of those inland seas and rivers seems to be very sluggish; but a little incident occurred a few years since, showing the contrary, in no very contemptible manner.
The journey south from Savannah was formerly made in what is called the inland passage, between the Sea Islands and the main land.
Shropshire; low stretches of sand form its foreshore, butinland it is hilly, with here and there a picturesque and fertile valley in which dairy-farming is extensively carried on.
There are no railways; communication inland is by road, river, and canals.
Africa fronting the Atlantic, between the Cameroon country and the Congo State, and stretching inland as far as the head-waters of the Congo River; in the NW.
This last place is the headquarters of the China Inland Mission, where, at the present rate of progress, one might modestly estimate that in twenty years there will be no less than a million people receiving Christian teaching.
McIntyre, who with his charming wife conducts the China Inland Mission in this city, to come and stay with them.
It was not possible, however, for us to get much more information than we had read up, and the Consul suggested that the most likely person to be of use to us would be the missionary at the China Inland Mission.
Could I not from such things get free, even in Inland China?
I stayed here a day only, Mr. Embery, of the China Inland Mission, a countryman of my own, kindly putting me up.
At the China Inland Mission later I found two young Scotsmen getting some exercise by throwing a cricket ball at a stone wall, in a compound about twenty feet square.
Dingle, for their kindness in having negotiated with my publishers in my absence in Inland China; and to the latter, for unfailing courtesy and patience, I am under considerable obligation.
Mrs. Clark, of the China Inland Mission, and hospitably entertained for a couple of days.
Footnote AF: The marriage laws were instituted by the China Inland Mission at Sa-pu-shan, where a great work is being done among the Hua Miao.
But we know that such visions are common to every European in Inland China, and even at the coast men talk continually of and believe that riots are going to happen in the near future.
McCarthy, of the China Inland Mission, who some thirty years or so ago did walk across to Burma, although he went through Kwei-chow province over a considerably easier country.
The Turkish frontier now once again touched the Sea of Marmora, which it had not reached since the Crusaders thrust it backinland in 1097.
Down to this time the inland of the Balkan peninsula had been inhabited by Thracian and Illyrian provincials, of whom the majority spoke the Latin tongue, though a few still preserved their ancient barbaric idiom.
A wall, commencing at the Lighthouse, where the Bosphorus joins the Propontis, turned inland and swept along parallel to the shore for about a mile, in order to shut off the imperial precinct from the city.
They seized on every good harbour and strong sea-fortress, but left the inland alone; commerce rather than annexation was their end.
There a long crescent-shaped creek, which after-ages were to know as the Golden Horn, strikes inland for seven miles, forming a quiet backwater from the rapid stream which runs outside.
The whole interior of the Balkan Peninsula formed at this period part of the dominions of Samuel King of the Bulgarians, who reigned over Bulgaria, Servia, inland Macedonia, and other districts around them.
The Ostrogoth, who had harried the inland of the Balkan Peninsula bare, and had met several reverses of late from the Roman arms, took the offer.
The gentleman gave me a £5 note and asked me to go to theInland Revenue Office here and get a £2 10s.
He stopped at the Inland Revenue Office there and sent in his card.
For the benefit of the boys who belong to this class, and those less fortunate ones living inland where yachts are unknown, I write this chapter.
Any boy can, with a little care, make a fine collection, which would be valued very highly by some inland friend who cannot reach the sea-shore every year, or perhaps not more than once or twice in a lifetime.
The difficulty is the same as that felt by so many geologists, when Lyell first insisted that long lines of inland cliffs had been formed, and great valleys excavated, by the slow action of the coast-waves.
In such aninland community, commerce could grow but slowly, the products being little adapted for distant exchange.
The result was a development of civic life still more rapid and more marked in inland Flanders,[735] where the territorial feudal power was naturally greater than in the maritime Dutch provinces.
But although those five carcasses of apes were all that we found, it was of course quite possible that there might have been many more, for our excursions inland were necessarily of very limited extent.
The inland lake of Biwa, though not large in area, is one which must be counted as something in a country as small as Japan.
The prosperity of the inland city of Yamaguchi, the residential seat of the Ouchi family, is to be ascribed also to the same circumstance.
If we look into the history of Europe, the Inland Sea of Japan has its counterpart in the Mediterranean, the Pacific, in the Atlantic, and the Sea of Japan in the Baltic Sea.
The partisans of the Taira family fought very valiantly on the coast of the Inland Sea, but always succumbed in the end to adverse destiny.
No need to speak of those piratical traders, who went out from the western islands and the coastal regions of the Inland Sea on their devastating errands to the Korean and the Chinese coasts.
Beyond the inland lake are Xanthia, Maronia, and Ismarus, cities of the Cicones.
Such is the wealth of the inland part of Turdetania, and its maritime portions are found fully to equal it in the richness of their sea-productions.
They inhabit the inland parts of the country, and we shall mention them again in another place.
In the inland the Bastarnæ dwell, and confine with the Tyregetæ and the Germans; indeed, they may almost be said to be of the German stock.
Alba[1910] is the most inland of all the Latin cities; it borders on the Marsi, and is situated on a high hill near to Lake Fucinus.
Jackson speaks of finding "beach-plums" (perhaps they were this kind) more than one hundred miles inland in Maine.
The fisherman will be startled to learn that there are but about a dozen kinds in the ponds and streams of any inland town; and almost nothing is known of their habits.
About ten years ago a friend of his was riding thro' a long and gloomy wood in one of the inland counties.
The inland sportsman or decoy-man knows little of the diving ducks.
A number of English homers were recently sent to Lassay, an inland town of France, but for some reason the French police authorities refused to start them, and the birds were relegated to Cherbourg, where they were liberated at 7 a.
From the fact of their resorting to inland waters the surface-feeding ducks are perhaps the best known.
Among the fowl that are driven down by stress of weather are wisps of snipe, and, although comparatively small, no game is dearer to the heart of the inland sportsman or shore-shooter.
Although often obtained by fowlers along the coast, it is also found on inland decoys, and feeds upon aquatic plants, insect larva, and molluscs.
Although found upon inland lochs and rivers, they love to frequent weed or grass-grown ooze and mud-banks, where they sleep and feed.
Even now there are nearly thirty species of wild duck which are either resident or annual visitants to our marine and inland waters.
It is only when their inland resorts are hard frozen that they are driven to the sea, and once here every art of the fowler is used in coming up with them.
The prospect inland is not so fine, as chains of tall, naked, ugly mountains rise up behind the hills, and completely shut in the scene.
The inland forms an extended plain, and is partially covered with thin underwood.
The active life of the rich inland and European commercial population must be sought for in the fortified parts of the town, which constitute a large quadrangle.
The Italians, one of the Frenchmen, and myself determined that we would take advantage of this delay to make an excursion to St. Paulo, the largest inland town of the Brazils, and about forty miles from Santos.
The most inland Post that he erected was at the lower end of this lake, which is fifty-five miles in length.
It is Duncan's sup- ply base in the winter months when he hunts along the Nascaupee River, one hundred and twenty miles inland to Seal Lake.
Fifty miles inland the Indian and Eskimo hunters had met them.
After following the stream for two days we were obliged to retrace our steps to Seal Lake, thereafter keeping to the course pursued on the inland journey.
Sam Ford had gone inlandbut was too late for the big hunt and only killed four or five deer.
Except in the more sheltered places the bay ice had broken away along the Straits and we had to follow the rough ice barricades, sometimes working inland up and down the rocky hills and steep grades.
