As soon as they were fairly out of hearing we started on through the woods, taking a northwesterly direction, occasionally stopping to consult the compass and reassure ourselves as to direction.
Thus far we had been traveling in a northwesterly direction, through the parishes of Orangeburg and Lexington, nearly on a line with the railroad running from Keyesville to Columbia, about ten miles from the railroad.
After traveling for about a mile, we doubled on our track, crossed the railroad within a quarter of a mile of the point where we had left it, and taking a northwesterly course commenced our pilgrimage toward Sherman and Liberty.
The enormous influx of cold air brought down by the long continued northwesterly gale is graphically shown on this chart by the large extent and deepening intensity of the blue tint, where the temperatures are below the freezing point.
Being favoured by a strong northwesterly breeze, we reached the narrows at half past six A.
These belt the planet in a west-northwesterly direction by a strip of territory from ten to fifteen degrees wide, the medial line of which begins at 55 deg.
At the next opposition more rifts were detected, one in especial on December 27, running from Arethusa Lucus, then upon the edge of the cap, athwart the snow in a northwesterly direction.
A creek ran out of itsnorthwesterly end, flowing in that direction.
From the summit of the hill we could see a string of lakes extending in a general northwesterlydirection until they were lost in other hills above, and also numerous lakes to the south, southwest, east and northeast.
Lake Michikamau by ascending the Nascaupee River; they, however, missed the mouth of that stream on Grand Lake and followed the Susan River instead, pursuing a northwesterlycourse for two months without reaching the lake.
It lay in a southeasterly and northwesterly direction, and rested upon the summit of a sub- sidiary divide that we had been gradually ascending.
Thence it resumes the northwesterlydirection and proceeds into the upper Nonni Valley until the headwater is reached.
The Suchow-Kobdo Line This line starts from Suchow in a northwesterly direction penetrating the Great Wall at Chiennew, and proceeds to the coal field, about 150 miles from Suchow.
From Tingyuen, its own track begins and the line proceeds in a northwesterly direction to Hwaiyuan, on the Hwai River, thence to Mongcheng, Kwoyang, and Pochow.
The Great Northern Port-Hami Line This line runs from the Great Northern Port in a northwesterly direction by way of Paoti and Siangho to Peking.
The Sian-Ninghsia Line This line will start from Sian in a northwesterly direction to Kingyanghsien, Shunhwa, and Sanshui.
The Dolon Nor-Kiakata Line This line starts from Dolon Nor and proceeds in a northwesterly direction, following the caravan road across the vast pasture to Khorkho, Kuoto, and Suliehto.
Here it enters into the West River and runs a northwesterly direction up to Samshui Junction on this river.
At Turfan this line meets the Northwestern Railway System and runs on the latter's track to Urumochi and Manass where it leaves that track and proceeds northwesterly to Tarbogotai on the frontier, crossing the Shair Mountain on the way.
Thence it crosses the desert in a northwesterly direction to Hami, where it turns westward to Turfan.
Passing through Kaichow it re-enters Honan to Changteh, thence it follows the Tsingchangho valley, in a northwesterly direction, across the Honan border into Shansi.
The Great Eastern Port-Tarbogotai Line This line begins at the Great Eastern Port on the seaboard, and runs in a northwesterly direction to Tarbogotai on the Russian frontier, covering a distance of about 3,000 miles.
From Saratsi, the line runs in a northwesterly direction across the vast prairie to Junction A of the Northwestern Trunk Line, where it joins the common track of the Dolon Nor-Urga line to Urga.
Sailing in a northwesterly direction a distance of 170 miles, they reached Asia Minor, in the province of Pamphylia.
Wind roses for these months show the characteristic light northwesterly winds of the early morning hours, in sharp contrast with the strong south and southwesterly indraught of the afternoon.
But in Kiushu the contest continued fiercely when, on the last day of the seventh lunar month, a northwesterly storm swept down on the Chinese fleet and wrecked a number of the ships with immense loss of life.
Thence it extends northwesterly crossing Nueltin, or Island lake, Ennadai lake on Kazan river and Boyd lake on the Dubawnt.
Its southern limits are defined by the former (up to 1912) northern boundary of Manitoba and the former (up to the same date) northwesterly boundary of Ontario.
The next day we went northwesterly along the banks of Salt river, in a region of extensive prairies, some of them wet, some dry, but all covered with a fine growth of grass and capable of supplying unlimited quantities of hay.
The whole of the country from Edmonton northwesterly to Arctic ocean in Mackenzie valley, Professor Macoun explained, is underlain by Devonian or cretaceous rock, and by the disintegration of these rocks good soil is produced always.
It is the Baffin Bay tide transmitted, first, northwesterly through the eastern portion of the Arctic Archipelago to the Arctic Ocean, and then easterly along the northern coast of Grant Land to Cape Columbia.
We were working in a northwesterly direction toward the Ellesmere Land side, and headed for Cape Sabine, of terrible memories.
The northwesterly tower has an elongated turret, extending from the lower ranges, which, when seen from a distance over the roof of the nave, appears as a protuberance not unlike a dove-cote.
The enormous northwesterly tower is stopped suddenly, with the daylight creeping through its very framework.
Broadway passes around it in a northwesterly direction.
At Thirty-fourth street, Broadway crosses Sixth avenue, and at Forty-fourth street it crosses Seventh avenue, still going in a northwesterly direction.
I sent out five men to go shooting in the northwesterly direction from the camp, and after a day and a half they returned with ten deer.
Pressing on in a northwesterly direction they passed through a series of deep valleys and gorges where the only water they could find was brackish and bitter, and reached the edge of the California desert.
Ascending the stream in a northwesterly direction, all alike suffering greatly from the cold of these high valleys, we passed signs of an immense encampment of Indians.
We were well mounted, and travelled rapidly in a northwesterly direction, across the lower fork of the Kansas River and the three branches which flow into the Republican Fork from the south and west.
Under the name Blue Nile the united streams flow on in a single current in a northwesterly direction.
It began about a mile and a half from Suez, and extended in a northwesterly direction, through a remarkable series of natural depressions, to ancient Bubastis on the eastern branch of the Nile.
Leaving Godjam, the river winds on in a northwesterly direction for about one hundred and fifty miles, where it is joined by the Blue River from the south.
During the night she struck a northwesterly course, so as to try to gain an entrance to the Bay of Manila from the north at daybreak, depending on the batteries of Corregidor to assist her in the attempt.
Beyond this, little of note invites the traveler's delay, so we make our waynorthwesterly straight across this canyon from the base of its southeasterly wall toward that of the opposite cliff.
