Mount Cunningham is a lofty rocky hill, about a mile and a half long, composed of granite rock, but entirely surrounded by low swampy ground.
Mr. Evans and myself ascended a high grassy hill about a mile and a half north of the tent, and the prospect round was highly pleasing.
The breadth of this marginal fringe on the north-western side, where alone it is at all perfect, appears to vary from a mile to a mile and a half.
One of them lies a mile and a half inland from Puerto Grande: it is circular, about the third of a mile in diameter, and 400 feet in depth.
Some appearances lead me to suppose that the southern wall of the crater joined the present ridge near Nest Lodge; in this case the crater must have been nearly three miles long, and about a mile and a half in breadth.
I walked for about a mile and a half along the sand without seeing a sign of hippopotami, except their numerous tracks upon the margin.
Thus the hunt continued for about a mile and a half, the rhinoceros occasionally charging, but always cleverly avoided by the horse.
As the crow flies it's no more than five hundred yards, but this way it can't be less than a mile and a half.
Peter opined that it was at least a mile and a quarter.
I shouldn't like to carry that a mile and a half," he said to himself.
I was only thinking 'twould save a mile and more," said O'Dowd.
For a mile and a half our rear was guarded all the while by armed men.
About a mile and a half from Shechem we halted at the base of Mount Ebal before a little square area, inclosed by a high stone wall, neatly whitewashed.
Short distance above about 1/4 mile andon the Lard Side a large Creek falls in, which R.
I walked on shore and acended this river about a mile and a half in order to examine it.
Try as they would the sledge could scarcely be made to move, and after three hours of the hardest work only a mile and a quarter had been gained.
Luckily the sledge showed no signs of capsizing, but the strain of trying to keep up a rate of a little over a mile and a quarter an hour was very great.
It was Baber's grandson Akbar that built the present fort, whose strong and lofty walls of red sandstone are a mile and a,half in circumference.
The cavern is divided into four grottoes, with two lateral ramifications which reach to the distance of about a mile and a half from the entrance.
The breadth in many places from north to south is about two miles and a half, but in others not above a mile and a half; the circumference of the whole being about sixteen miles.
I moved rapidly in the designated direction till I reached the railroad, and then rode down it for a mile and a half, but found neither bridge nor culvert.
It's goin' to take a good long spell afore he can wade a mile and a half in such a storm as this and get another horse and wagon and come back again.
Do you suppose I waded and paddled a mile and a quarter down to call on Abbie Larkin a night like last night?
We couldn't walk a mile and a half in a storm like this.
The fall was in the line of the retreat of the Iroquois towards their home, and is only a mile and three-quarters from the cape jutting out into the lake at Ticonderoga.
They learned from a French surgeon, escaped from the enemy, that the Iroquois were all encamped a mile and a half farther on, behind a tract of forest.
The Seneca ambuscade was on the marsh and the hills immediately north and west of the present village of Victor; and their chief town, called Gannagaro by Denonville, was on the top of Boughton's Hill, about a mile and a quarter distant.
The remains of the fort burned by the French are still plainly visible on a hill a mile and a quarter from the ancient town.
I had occasion at this time to visit Uppark camp, a military post about a mile and a half from Kingston, where two regiments of infantry, and a detachment of artillery, were stationed.
Torbert having pursued toward Cold Harbor the troops he fought at Matadequin Creek, had taken up a position about a mile and a half from that place, on the Old Church road.
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