The further southwestward extension of the Pocono sandstone ridges in the southern than in the northern syncline gives further illustration of this peculiarity of form.
The following paragraphs are selected from his early pages: "The land southwestward of Hudson's River is more regularly divided and into a greater number of stages than the other.
We are wont to think of the South as a low country with sultry climate; yet its mountain chains stretch uninterruptedly southwestward from Virginia to Alabama, 650 miles in an air line.
In January, 1880, a combined movement by armed bodies of internal revenue officers was made from West Virginia southwestward through the mountains and foothills infested with illicit distillers.
From eastern Virginia their patriarchal establishments had been pushed westward and southwestward until in 1860 the black belt reached to the Rio Grande.
One railroad goes for a hundred miles through the gorges and valleys southwestward along the base of the Great Smoky range.
The Union plan was that General Buell, who was coming southwestward from Nashville, should join Grant, and then an advance southward be made.
The battalion then turned southwestward along the Tanauan-Dagami road toward Kiling, which is about midway between Tanauan and Dagami.
The great stream of immigrants entering at the port of Philadelphia and flowing westward and southwestward was joined by a tributary stream entering at Charleston.
The main chain, on the contrary, trends southwestward from the parallel groups in the heart of the State, only to become mixed up into half a dozen branches, all of enormous height and bulk, down in the southwestern corner.
Leaving the ~Glacier Point Hotel~ we follow the road southwestward about two miles, turning to the right at the ~Pohono Trail~ sign.
From ~Glacier Point~ we follow the road southwestward about two and a half miles.
From ~Glacier Point~ we follow the road southwestward about six miles to a junction, where our trail branches to the left.
Little River, a small affluent of Goose Creek, rises in Fauquier County west of Bull Run mountain and enters Loudon a few milessouthwestward of Aldie.
The main railroad then leaves the Conemaugh, and goes off southwestward along the slope of Chestnut Ridge towards Greensburg and Pittsburg.
Extending off to the southwestward is Morrison's Cove, a rich valley under the shadow of the long mountain ridge, which was settled in 1755 by the Dunkards.
Homosassa is a popular resort about fifty miles southwestward from Ocala.
Central Kentucky northwestward to central Iowa and southwestward to Kansas and east to northwest Tennessee.
Its range then extends west to the east side of Monroe County, thence southwestward to the west side of Martin County, thence south to the Ohio River.
After leaving Cerro Colorado, with its undeveloped possibilities, the trail leads southwestward through the broken barrancas toward Batopilas.
St. Julien practically due west for about a mile, whence it curvedsouthwestward before turning north to the canal near Boesinghe.
It is as dangerous to go back as forward; and forward Hudson sails, southwestward for that sea Drake had cruised off California, the old mate's mutiny rumbling beneath decks like a volcano.
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.
With these sixty La Roche follows the fishing fleet out to the Grand Banks, then rounds southwestward for milder clime, where he may winter his people.
Southwestward the country was extremely wild and broken, with few and small settlements and no roads worthy the name.
The mountain abutted on the gorge of the New River on the northeast, and stretched also southwestward into the impracticable wilderness about the headwaters of the Guyandotte and the Tug Fork of Sandy.
To the north of the irregular and diversified portion of southern California, where the Great Basin region extends southwestward to the Pacific, rises the southern Coast Range of California.
The Green and Grand Rivers, fed by many tributaries, unite to form the Colorado, which flows southwestward for some 700 miles and discharges its muddy waters into the Gulf of Lower California.
Eleven miles from the starting point, the road reaches an intersection from which a side road leads southwestward three-fourths of a mile to a parking area at the foot of Klondike Bluffs, which form the south side of Salt Valley.
From Tampa he marched northward to South Carolina and then marched southwestward to Mobile Bay.
He then sailed southwestward to find a strait, which was said to lead through America, north of Chesapeake Bay.
Mac turned and gazed away southwestwardalong the line of the San Saba hills.
Young Brayton, with half a dozen troopers, had been despatchedsouthwestward along the falda, ordered to search high and low for Lawrence, dead or alive.
Between Churchill and Saskatchewan rivers two lines were examined by Mr. Tyrrell, one from Prince Albert northwestward by Green lake to Ile à la Crosse, and the other from Stanley Mission southwestward by Montreal lake to Prince Albert.
All the drainage of western Pennsylvania passed northward into Lake Erie just before the Ice Age instead of southwestward through the Ohio River as at present.
Such a down-warp of the land must have helped to form the closed basins by tending to stop the southward and southwestward drainage of the region.
Southwestward the valley grows narrower, and the ridges which break its surface become straighter.
The Appalachian highland, the second great division of North America, consists of three parallel bands which extend southwestward from Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River to Georgia and Alabama.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southwestward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
