Climbed a very high hill or mountain, a mile long, stopped an hour for dinner on the top.
Passed through a tunnel three-quarters of a mile long here, nearly suffocating us with fire and smoke.
Finally we entered the tunnel, three-fourths of a mile long, drilled in solid rock.
The “Grande Rue” is the principal street; a thoroughfare nearly a mile long, which would not disgrace a European city, so far as buildings are concerned.
An enormous procession, nearly a mile long, bore witness to the fact that the deceased was a man of some rank.
There was a wharf a quarter of a mile long, with deep water alongside, so that goods could be rolled down planks or gangways to the shore from the vessels.
Magdala itself is about half a mile long by a quarter of a mile wide, its narrow end joining the shoulder to Salamgi, and as this end is rather narrow, it touches the shoulder only for about fifty or sixty yards.
Imagine a gigantic farmyard of three-quarters of a mile long by nearly half a mile wide, and containing above 300 hayricks, in a blaze; and the effect of burning Magdala may be readily conceived.
In several marshy places, and on the banks of rivulets, we saw again the evergreen trees and bushes, and in a swamp nearly a mile long, through which a causeway ran, some magnolia grandiflora which were at least sixty feet high.
Their habitations form a street along Mauch Chunk creek, nearly half a mile long.
Damariscove Island and are about 1 mile longby 400 yards wide.
It is a rocky shoal, ½ mile long by 200 yards wide, with a ½-acre shoal in the center.
It is about 2/3 mile long N and S by 1/4 mile wide.
Adderley Street and the avenue make one straight road a mile long, and at its end are "the Gardens," as the suburbs built on the rising ground leading to Table Mountain are called.
The avenue itself is fully half a mile long and is lined on either side with fine oak trees.
Khan Minyeh, and its ruins, covering an area of "half a mile long by a quarter wide," prove it to have been the site of no small town.
The chasm of the Sugar Water Falls is about half a mile long, and immediately below the precipices are perpendicular and very imposing, reaching an elevation of at least one thousand feet.
Now, I allow this pond, in a common way, is nigh on to half a mile long; but at this time they were draining the pond, and it warnt so very large.
Wenlock Edge, that eighteen-mile long strip of craggy wooded hill which stretches from Wenlock to Craven Arms, with such fine views over the rich plain below.
Alongside of this is a glazed wall a quarter of a mile long.
Johnnie had to ride one night through a wood a mile long to the place he was going to.
The portage path in the upper part of the canyon is on the east bank, and is about five-eighths of a mile long.
The Broad is a mile long, and very pretty, and the entrance to it is four and a half miles from the mouth of the Ant.
Rope Walk runs under Kentucky street, near the north end of the Islais Creek Bridge, which is the same street continued across Islais Creek, now a solidly planked bridge, seven eighths of a mile long.
Opposite this, and half a mile south lies Lake Merced, three quarters of a mile long by a fifth of a mile wide.
One sufficiently vigorous and persevering may push on up the Tenaya creek till he finds the Tenaya Lake, over a mile long, snugly nestled in among the mountains.
The anchorage at the head of the Sound, once very much exposed and dangerous in southerly winds, is now protected by a stone breakwater nearly a mile long, designed to shelter ships of the Royal Navy.
We had one rapid to run the next morning at the beginning of Narrow Canyon, the only rapid in this nine-mile long canyon.
We found this rapid to be about a fourth of a mile long, divided into three sections as its name indicated, and filled with great boulders at the base of a sheer cliff on the right--another unrunnable rapid.
It was about a fourth of a mile long; a mass of submerged rocks extended entirely across the river; the entire rapid seemed impossible.
The rapid had a fall of twenty-five feet, and was a quarter of a mile long.
But it was far too late at the speed she was going to hope to steer the huge Titanic, over a sixth of a mile long, out of reach of danger.
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