The expedition then proceeded northwestward and northward along a route so laid as to define the western limits of Papagueria proper, and reached Tucson near the end of the year.
On February 12 they continued westward over mesquite-covered plains for 4 leagues, and then turned northwestward for 3 leagues along the San Ignacio to Caborca, where they spent the remainder of the day in evangelical work.
The only other method of reversing the originalnorthwestward flow of the streams that I have imagined is by capture of their headwaters by Atlantic rivers.
To thenorthwestward of the Endless mountains is a country of vast extent, and in a manner as high as the mountains themselves.
But at the foot of the towering barrier lay a remarkable deep-set valley four hundred miles in length, in which northwestward ran the Fraser and southeastward the Canoe and the Columbia.
The Great plateaus cross the United States-Canadian boundary and extendnorthwestward through the western portion of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, and embrace nearly the whole of Alberta and western Athabasca.
Its range is from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland northwestward through the subarctic forest to British Columbia and northeastern Alaska.
Grenville Channel is a narrow, lovely reach, extending in a northwestward direction from Wright Sound for forty-five miles, when it merges into Arthur Passage.
The largest glacier in the world, streaming into the sea from Mount St. Elias, more than a thousand miles to the northwestward from this strait, bears the same name.
Phareodus testis is frequently found well preserved in the shales at Fossil Station, to the northwestward of Green River.
It abounds in the Great Lakes and their tributaries and is occasionally found in the Delaware, Ohio, Kansas, and other rivers and northwestward as far as Medicine Hat on the Saskatchewan.
This species is found in the Great Lakes, the Adirondack region, the lakes of New Hampshire, and thence northwestward to the Yukon, abounding in cold deep waters, its range apparently nowhere coinciding with that of Coregonus williamsoni.
San Luis Potosi, or, a slightly lesser number of miles north-northwestward from an indefinite locality for G.
On the west coast, areas of more humid tropical vegetation and climate are more distant from the coastline as one proceeds northwestward from Nayarit to Sonora.
Also, specimens of Sturnira lilium and of the genus Chiroderma from Chihuahua that extend their known ranges northwestward are reported.
Sinaloa, extends the known range of the species approximately 415 miles northwestward from 2 mi.
These plains gradually slope northwestward to the banks of two of the most noted of the Adirondack waters, Lake Placid and the Mirror Lake, with old Whiteface Mountain for their guardian, "heaving high his forehead bare.
He disregarded it, apparently without hesitation, and throwing his force northwestward toward Ceva, where the Piedmontese were posted, terrified them into a retreat.
Northwestward was Milan; to the east lay the almost impregnable fortress of Mantua.
Rising only thirty miles from the sea, this stream flows away northwestward to join the Parana and enter the ocean above Buenos Aires, the slope of all this region, so soon as one has crossed the Serra do Mar, being from east to west.
Still further north, towards Pernambuco, and most of the way northwestwardto Para, the coast is much lower.
At the same time, the Spanish frontier forged slowlynorthwestward into Lower California and southern Arizona.
After 1763 criticism of the Company was reinforced by the rise of the Montreal trade, and new explorations northwestward were undertaken.
From this point a German trench known as the Hansa line ran northwestward to the Ancre, directly opposite the village of Beaucourt.
The wanderings of La Vérendrye and his sons for the next few years led southwestward far as the Rockies in the region of Montana, northwestward far as the Bow River branch of the Saskatchewan.
Nottely: A river rising in Union county and flowing northwestward into Hiwassee.
A river in upper Georgia, flowing northwestward into Hiwassee.
Hiwassee: A river having its source in Towns county, of northern Georgia, and flowing northwestward to join the Tennessee.
Along the valleys of the main tributaries to the northwestward I saw far into their shadowy depths, one noble peak in its snowy robes appearing beyond another in fine perspective.
One has its range in the northeastern states, extending south to West Virginia and northwestward to Alaska.
From Hudson bay its northern boundary trends northwestward and reaches the vicinity of Great Bear lake.
A wide, shallow gully rannorthwestward from a point near Red King, almost in a straight line toward the herd.
Lawler was about to start Red King toward them, when he noted movement on the level a little northwestward from the cattle.
From here we have a second northern line of settlement westward and northwestward into Northern Iowa, Minnesota, and the more northerly localities of Wisconsin.
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