Following the direction of the general course of the Lachlan as laid down by Mr. Oxley we crossed a fine tract of open forest land, and at the distance of five miles arrived at a dry reach.
It was quite impossible to say on what part of the Murray, as laid down by Captain Sturt, we had arrived; and we were therefore obliged to feel our way just as cautiously as if we had been upon a river unexplored.
During the afternoon I laid down my survey of the estuary of the Glenelg and completed by 10 P.
Before it can perpetrate innovation, certain primal and immutable principles are laid down, and the boldest conceptions of human device are subjected to certain forms which retard and stop their completion.
The evening had closed in before we got back to the cart, but our course was fortunately true, and having given poor Punch as liberal a draught as reason would justify we laid down to rest.
When I laid down, I revolved in my own mind what course I should pursue in the morning.
They had also another object in view: in all the maps of the world of the sixteenth century, a great southern continent is laid down.
The Canoe returned at dusk half full of water, from the waves which dashed over in passing the point Capt Lewis is object is also to find a Small Bay as laid down by Vancouver just out of the mouth of the Columbia River.
Ocian from Point Adams to Cape Disapointment, I could not See any Island in the mouth of this river as laid down by Vancouver.
The Ohio is laid down on both of them, with an inscription to the effect that it had been explored by La Salle.
It is laid down on the map of Galinée, and other unpublished maps.
Whereas if he intended it as a set form, it must not have been so laid down, for a set form is so many words and no more.
In my drafts it is laid down in 8 degrees 10 minutes.
It expands, classifies, tabulates, draws corollaries from the ethical doctrines laid down in the more popular treatises.
The Scottish law, as laid down by the House of Lords in Earl of Zetland v.
Let these then be laid down, both in law and in our discourse, as the regulations of laughable amusements which are generally called comedy.
Let this one law then belaid down by us about murder; and let cases of this sort be so regarded.
Let this, then, as I was saying, be laid down by us.
The deepest sounding as laid down on Laurie's Chart is one hundred and forty-six fathoms.
The map is oriented by the needle without reference to its variation, but the true meridian is laid down by a strong line on which the degrees of latitude are numbered.
When his army moved, it was a picture of battle, everything in its place, as laid down by scientific military rules.
We laid down in a graveyard that night and slept, and when we awoke the sun was high in the heavens, shining in our faces.
They died for the faith that each state was a separate sovereign government, as laid down by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of our fathers.
An opening is laid down here in the Dutch chart, called Vereenigde River, which certainly has no existence.
This north head lies in latitude 24° 0', as laid downby captain Cook, and bears from the south head N.
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