The force on Edisto was advanced to the northern part of the island, with a strong guard on Little Edisto, which touches the mainland and is cut off from the large island by Watts' cut and a creek running across its northern neck.
Of the railway systems of the mainland of Europe as a whole the main features are these.
The northern borders of the continent are within the Arctic Circle; the most southern points of the mainland are 131/2 deg.
It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the Euboic Sea.
It allows of German coal being carried without break of bulk to Paris, Milan and the mainland of Denmark.
The most northern point of the mainland area is Cape Nordkyn in Norway, 71 deg.
Improvements in transport have likewise tended to cheapen British coal in many parts of the mainland of Europe.
The workmen were carried to and from the mainland by a wire hawser and cradle, and the rising breastwork of masonry protected them from the beat of the sea.
The gale had shattered two of his windlasses; but two remained, and by one o'clock next day he had both slung over to the mainland and fixed beside the rock.
The harbour, protected by the promontory of La Isleta, which is connected with the mainland by a narrow bar of sand, can accommodate the largest ships, and affords secure anchorage in all weathers.
Dangerous reefs lie off the point, and one group a mile from the mainland is marked by the Longships Lighthouse, in 50 deg.
Returning to the New World as soon as possible, he discovered at last the mainland (that of South America), Aug.
His career on the mainland was one of crime and rapine.
Thus strengthened, Pizarro crossed back to the mainlandon rafts.
It was not Cortez who first saw the Pacific, but Balboa,--five years before Cortez came to the mainland of America at all.
It is reported that on one occasion a boat was towed over to the mainland during the night, and was off Avalon again in the morning.
But the feeding ground of the sockeyes is some unknown part of the Pacific Ocean from which they migrate and enter the waters between the mainland of British Columbia and Vancouver Island in great shoals, through the Straits of San Juan.
This is really the only fishing hotel on the upper mainland of British Columbia, and is an excellent headquarters from which several lakes can be reached, as also many places on each side of the Thompson River.
This is one of the oldest mainland settlements of southwestern Alaska, having been used as the mainland port of the former Russian capital, Kodiak, on Kodiak Island.
That this was the first voyage made by Hojeda and Americo in search of the mainland appears from two reasons which have already been mentioned as being given by Americo himself in his first Navigation.
Las Casas, therefore, naturally used it as one argument against the truth of Vespucci's narrative, for Paria was well known to be a province of the mainland opposite the island of Trinidad, discovered by Columbus.
Somerset, the formation of which led to the expedition of the Jardine brothers, was formed on the mainland at the Albany Pass, opposite the island of that name.
When at the mouth of the river he ascended a hill, and seaward saw an island inhabited, the natives told him, by copper-coloured men, who came in their canoes to the mainland for scented wood.
Somerset was formed on the mainland of Cape York Peninsula, and the formation of this led to the expedition of the Jardine brothers.
When at the mouth of the river he ascended a hill and looked out to sea where he saw an island, inhabited, the natives told him, by copper-coloured men who came in large canoes to the mainland for scented wood.
Amongst the people inhabiting the many islands of the Malay Archipelago and portions of the mainland of Asia, there can be little doubt that our continent was known, and intercourse of an occasional kind carried on with its natives.
Two or three days were occupied repairing damages, and then they made the mainland and obtained a supply of fresh water.
There's a high wall here which separates it from the city, and the ruins of the bridges which connected with the mainland have been removed, so the animals can't get back across any more.
After the Holocaust, the first returnees to the island were wild animals which crossed from the mainland from the north.
We spent the night in the chief's house, and the next morning went over to the mainland to look out for a place where I could reside.
The Paradisea papuana has a comparatively wide range, being the common species on the mainland of New Guinea, as well as on the islands of Mysol, Salwatty, Jobie, Biak and Sook.
The people here--at least the chief men--were of a much purer Malay race than the Mahometans of the mainland of Ceram, which is perhaps due to there having been no indigenes on these small islands when the first settlers arrived.
It is very probable, therefore, that it ranges over the whole of the mainland of New Guinea.
We then crossed over again to the mainland of Gilolo by the advice of our Gani men, who knew the coast well.
This beautiful bird inhabits the mainland of New Guinea, and is also found in Salwatty, but is so rare that I was only able to obtain one imperfect native skin, and nothing whatever is known of its habits.
MY boat was at length ready, and having obtained two men besides my own servants, after an enormous amount of talk and trouble, we left Dobbo on the morning of March 13th, for the mainland of Aru.
I collected one hundred species of land-birds in the Aru Islands, and about eighty of them, have been found on the mainland of New Guinea.
The villagers of the mainland of Ceram bring their sago, which is thus distributed to the islands farther east, while rice from Bali and Macassar can also be purchased at a moderate price.
I took advantage of a very fine calm day to pay a visit to the island of Wokan, which is about a mile from us, and forms part of the "canna busar," or mainland of Aru.
The Paradisea apoda, as far as we have any certain knowledge, is confined to the mainland of the Aru Islands, never being found in the smaller islands which surround the central mass.
On the sea, off the mainland of Dapitan, on the thirtieth day of the month of May in the year one thousand six hundred and two.
In the port of Biara, which is on the mainland of Dapitan and Mindanao, on the thirty-first day of the month of May in the year one thousand six hundred and two.
Thus as an offshoot or derivation from the original type still existing on the mainlandwe should have the new island-inhabiting type.
Inhabitants of Sicily, the largest island of the Mediterranean Sea, now a part of Italy, and separated from the mainland by the Strait of Messina.
One species of the bread-fruit, called the Jaca tree, grows chiefly on the mainland of Asia.
Defences were again erected on the mainland opposite, and all approaches were blocked by land and sea.
Thus Aradus, the most northern frontier city of Phœnicia, was built on one of these islands; and opposite to it on the mainland was Antaradus, which derived its name from it.
They had brought the peninsula and a great part of the coast and the mainland as far as Malwa under their rule, which in the case of the third certainly lasted to the year 534.
He found that here, as in the mainland and the nearer islands, patriotism was weak and misrule oppressive.
The distance from the mainland markets imposes a serious handicap.
The treaty of Vienna in placing the Ionian Islands under British protection had made no mention of the towns of Parga and Butrinto on the mainland of Epirus which had passed under British rule along with the islands.
We must now take up the other question where we left it, at the recognition of the independence of Brazil and the expulsion of the Spanish troops from the mainland of America.
In spite of the temporary successes of Canterac, Peru, the last of the mainland provinces, was lost to Spain in 1825, and the other European powers did not now delay their recognition of the American republics.
By the summer of 1822 Upper Peru was the only part of the American mainland where Spain held more than isolated posts; she had been compelled to sell Florida to the United States, and San Domingo had joined the revolted French colony of Hayti.
This remote parish, cut off from the busier mainland by wide heaths and marshes, sparsely provided with ill-kept roads, had never looked for a bustling activity in its rectors.
Any knowing his way could save two miles on the longer way by the only road connecting Farlingford with the mainland and tapping the great road that runs north and south a few miles inland.
Last of all the great molders of Sicily came the Normans, knights who with their keen blades carved a slice out of the Byzantine Empire on the Italian mainland and, conquering the Sicilian Muslims, built up a kingdom for themselves.
Ortygia, the island, was once connected with the mainland by a mole of cut stone, and afterward separated and attached and separated again as the whims and dangers of the different periods dictated.
Bad as the Sicilian beggars are supposed to be, we experienced less annoyance from them throughout the island than from their pertinacious brethren of Naples and the mainland generally.
Since cotton cloth and cotton are absent from the pre-Columbian archaeology and the historic ethnography of the peninsula, this specimen must have been obtained through trans-Gulf trade with mainland Mexico.
Bahía de Los Angeles lies in that part of Baja California most accessible to the Mexican mainland (map 1).
Presumably this specimen is a piece of pre-Columbian trade goods from the mainland of Mexico, and so belongs in the cultural inventory of the cotton-weaving cultures of the Oasis Area.
This boat would be available for the journey to the mainland or to another island.
We can run over to the mainland if she wants us to," the lawyer said.
I guess I'll have to make the trip to the mainland after all.
And if there is none," added Neale, "Hank or I can row over to the next nearest island or to the mainland and bring back some men.
They've gone over to the mainland with some fish to sell, but they'll be back around noon.
Hear now the sum of them: on the mainland twenty herds of kine, and flocks of sheep as many, and droves of swine as many, and as many herds of goats.
Once my lord had possessions beyond all counting; none in Ithaca nor on the mainland had so much.
Don't you think we'd better try to go over to the mainland and rouse out Ethan?
They can get over to the mainland then just as easy's not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mainland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
