The river, which was here about a mile wide, was choked up with rocks, a broken ridge passing completely across it.
The bed of the river, here about a mile wide, is strewn with blocks of various sizes, which lie in the most irregular manner, and between them rush currents of more or less rapidity.
The main fall is about a quarter of a mile wide; we climbed to an elevation overlooking it, and had a good view of the cataract.
After leaving the plains country the railway traversed a narrow winding valley less than a mile wide, with gradient so steep that our train was divided.
Then we cross a long narrow valley practically all in rice, and then another not half a mile wide, just before reaching Asa.
A junction with this general was not contemplated when the expedition was first conceived, but became an important though not the paramount object after the reception of the later information.
Grant --with his company of the Fourth Infantry, in April, 1857.
The request was complied with by sending to my assistance the greater part of my own company ("K")from Fort Yamhill.
We then crossed a bay about 1-1/2 mile wide, and arrived at another point of nearly the same dimensions, both formed of mud and shingle.
Four miles further brought us opposite to a small low island, half a mile from the shore, and at a short distance beyond this we came to a small bay upwards of a mile wide.
At three miles from where we had stopped, we passed a small bay, about 1-1/2 mile wide, the only indentation of the coast we had seen since leaving Pelly Bay.
A walk of twenty minutes brought me to an inlet not more than a quarter of a mile wide.
Passing these, a splendid sheet of water lay before us, trending south-east by south, as far as the eye could reach from the boat, and more than a mile wide.
A large islet and a reef left the entrance only a mile wide.
Several banks showed themselves, leaving at that time of tide scarcely a boat channel, although the river was a mile wide at high-water.
Towards the upper part it was scarcely half a mile wide; but for an Australian stream was remarkably free from bends, pursuing a straight course between rocky heights, with a depth varying from two to seven fathoms.
This lode is in some parts a mile wide, and extends a hundred miles, being here a series of parallel fissures filled with gold-bearing quartz-veins, while farther south they unite in a single enormous fissure.
The Bay of San Francisco is a magnificent inland sea, fifty miles long and ten miles wide, connected with the Pacific Ocean by the strait of the Golden Gate, five miles long and a mile wide.
There are many handsome country seats and villages between West Point and Hudson, where the river is more than a mile wide.
The Delaware is about a mile wide at Philadelphia, and ships of the largest tonnage can approach the wharf.
The Mississippi is in few places more than from half-a-mile to a mile wide; and were one to judge of its magnitude by its breadth alone, a very erroneous estimate would be formed.
The river here was over a mile wide, and the fall of such an immense body of water over a high ledge made the earth tremble.
He says that the entrance was more than a mile wide, "but closed up by a grass sand-bank, with the exception of a channel three or four hundred yards wide.
The former is the largest of all, and at its mouth a mile wide.
It is about three quarters of a mile wide, and seven or eight miles long.
In making the running survey of the western promontory I found that all to the north of Sloping Head was an island, having a boat channel between from half a mile to a mile wide.
The flats on the bank of the creek are in some parts nearly a mile wide, well grassed and openly timbered; the hills are of sandstone, but chert and coarse limestone were frequently seen on the lower ridges.
Several large pools, teeming with water-fowl, occupied the whole of the valley, which here was fully a quarter of a mile wide.
The Rock River is nearly a quarter of a mile wide at this point, and comes down with a majestic sweep from the north, having its chief source in the gloomily picturesque Lake Koshkonong.
At the entrance to this lovely vista we encountered a logy little pleasure-steamer anchored in the midst of the stream, which is here nearly half of a mile wide, for the river now perceptibly broadens.
The river itself runs through the midst, a thin sheet of rapid, turbid water, half a mile wide, and scarce two feet deep.
This was very easy; for though the sands were about a quarter of a mile wide, the water was nowhere more than two feet deep.
At this season, were it not for the numerous quicksands, the river might be forded almost anywhere without difficulty, though its channel is often a quarter of a mile wide.
Eleven miles lower down, on the Illinois side, is fort Spassai, erected on a high bank and in a commanding position, which overlooks the Ohio, here a mile wide.
The river is here about a mile wide, and assumes the form of a half moon.
It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines.
It was a quarter of a mile wide, and as blue as the sky of midsummer, and fishes were popping their heads out of the water in every direction.
This was three-quarters of a mile wide, and bright scarlet.
Soon afterward he came to the White River, which was half a mile wide, so rapid that it was covered with foam, like new milk, and full of immense sea serpents.
He jumped across the first brook, and threw a white seed into it, and turned it into a terrible inky black waste of waters a mile wide, full of fishes six yards long, and every fish covered with spikes.
The mouth of the Ousuree is a mile wide, and the stream is said to be magnificent through its whole length.
At daylight on the morning after leaving Igoon, we were passing the mouth of the Zeya, a river half a mile wide, flowing with a strong current.
The river was less than a mile wide, and the volume of water sensibly diminished above the Zeya.
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