The journey was resumed at half past three o'clock the following morning, and the row of twelve miles to St. Johns was a delightful one.
It now runs through marshes for most of the way, a distance of twelve miles to Raritan Bay, which is an arm of the lower bay of New York harbor.
Twelve miles of rowing brought us to St. Ours, where we rested for the night, after wandering through its shaded and quaint streets.
Off Cumberland Head, and dividing the lake, is Grand Isle, twelve milesin length and from three to four in width.
At daybreak the explorers landed upon Roanoke Island, which is twelve miles long by two and a half wide, and found the spot where Admiral White had left the colony in 1587.
These and other deductions left Krugersdorp with a garrison of 300 men to man a perimeter of some ten or twelve miles, or, roughly speaking, just over fifty yards for each rifle.
It had been a trying march for all, although the column had accomplished only twelve miles in eleven hours.
The perimeter of these defences was very large, not far short of twelve miles, but the positions themselves were well selected from a tactical point of view.
Starting on the 16th, an uneventful march of twelve miles brought us to Wolverdiend, a place which had not then attained the importance it afterwards assumed.
The average speed is twelve miles an hour, not twelve and a half, as most people will hastily declare.
From Point of Rocks, twelve miles east of Harper's Ferry, to Martinsburg, fifteen miles west, the line was double.
On April 26, when Banks moved two brigades to Harrisonburg, Ewell was at once called up to Stanardsville, twelve miles south-east of Swift Run Gap.
Quitting the river bottom, the road ran along the uplands, over a rolling country, generally in view of the Kansas from eight to twelve miles distant.
The road here makes a traverse of twelve miles across a bend of the river.
From the forest we emerged into an open valley ten or twelve miles wide, through which the stream was flowing tranquilly, upwards of two hundred feet broad, with occasional islands, and bordered with fine broad bottoms.
St. George's Basin is a noble sheet of water some ten or twelve miles across.
The farthest extremity of the sandstone range which lay to the southward and eastward did not appear to be more than ten or twelve miles distant.
While this battle was in progress at the Wisconsin ranch, another fight was going on at the American ranch, twelve miles east.
Twelve miles from my last night's rendezvous, I pass through Keshtobek, a village that has evidently seen better days.
Steering to the south-west we came at twelve miles to the head of Spencer's Gulf, and crossed the channel connecting it with Lake Torrens.
At twelve miles we came to a large rocky watercourse of brackish water, trending to the east-north-east, through a narrow valley bounded by dense scrub.
At twelve miles, we found some nice green grass, and although we could not procure water here, I determined to halt for the sake of the horses.
Upon arrival at the village we selected a pretty spot upon elevated ground which overlooked the entire country, and from which we could faintly distinguish Famagousta, twelve miles distant.
Having exhausted the sights of Famagousta, we started on the 22nd of March for Kuklia, twelve miles distant, where we had left our vans in charge of the headman during our absence in the Carpas country.
British and French troops, keeping in close touch with the German rear guard during the advance, pushed forward to a depth of from ten to twelve miles, and their cavalry entered Nesle about the same time.
The Germans had retired on the Ancre on a front of twelve miles to a depth of two miles.
This village, twelve miles southeast of Harrisonburg, lies at the base of the Blue Ridge, on the east bank of the Shenandoah.
On the 22d we marched to Beaseley's, twelve miles, and remained until the 29th, hoping that reënforcements would reach us.
Jackson had struck the Valley pike at Middletown, twelve miles south of Winchester, along which a large body of Federal horse, with many wagons, was hastening north.
Leaving Gordonsville, we proceeded in a southeasterly direction, passing Louisa Court House and Frederickshall, and camped at Ashland on the Fredericksburg Railway, twelve miles north of Richmond, on the evening of the 25th of June.
The same uninteresting volcanic appearance characterised the entire country to the table-land of Warelissan, a distance of twelve miles.
Hereaway, twelve miles to the westward, lay Little Butte, where the line swept a great curve to the north and so continued on to Red Butte.
The two armies met on Chickamauga Creek, twelve miles south of Chattanooga.
The Confederate fortifications, twelve miles in length, ran along Missionary Ridge, across the southern end of the valley, and up over Lookout Mountain.
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