The point which separates the two rivers on the north, extends for fifteen or twenty miles, the greater part of which is an open level plain, in which the people of the neighbourhood cultivate what little grain they raise.
From the Ayoway village the northern hills again retire from the river, to which they do not return till three hundred and twenty miles above, at Floyd's river.
From this point the ridge appears as a continuous mountain, stretching away to the south for a distance of twenty miles, from where it crosses the river.
Vernon, twenty miles to the north, was part of this system.
He estimates that it was "a city upwards of twenty miles in circumference.
At Ancon, for instance, twenty miles north of Lima it is simply wonderful how extensive the cemeteries are.
Jheels, within twelve to twenty miles of the Khasia; they are chiefly formed of stratified gravel and sand, and are always occupied by villages and large trees.
The lake at this point was between fifteen and twenty miles across, and the appearance of the country to the north was that of a delta.
There is another range of reefs to the westward of the cape, that extends in a north and south direction for upwards of twenty miles; and about from three to five miles broad.
The men have marched five-and-twenty miles a day for the last five days, and they want rest, so I should not like to parade them again.
One of the peasants came in at the end of that time, saying that the French in Corunna had crossed the mountains and had arrived at Santiago, twenty miles distant, and that their cavalry were scouring the country.
It is all very well to march when we have got to march, but to keep us tramping fifteen or twenty miles a day when there is no occasion for it is out of all reason.
Who ever heard of an army marching, without artillery and cavalry, one way, while these arms travelled by a different road entirely, and that not for a march of twenty miles, but for a march of three hundred?
Twenty miles to the southeast stood a train with a killed engine, hysterical passengers and a looted express and mail car.
The camp was now in the valley of the Guadalupe, twenty miles away.
The next morning he saddled his horse and rode alone to the Mexican settlement at the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio, twenty miles away.
The distance from Louvain to Brussels is in the neighbourhood of twenty miles, and our car with its fluttering flags sped between lines of cheering people all the way.
The battle hinged on the possession of the railway embankment had gradually extended, each army trying to outflank the other, until it was being fought along a front of twenty miles.
Twenty miles of travel brought them to Upper Fort Garry.
We have a view of part of the lake (Torrens) bearing north-east about fifteen or twenty miles from us; to the west again the stony rises, apparently more open.
At twenty miles we saw a smoke raised by the blacks to the south of our line, under the range.
We have a view of rising ground a little to the north of our line, about from fifteen to twenty miles distant.
Ten degrees to the east of north is a large dark-coloured hill, which I saw from last night's camp, from fifteen to twenty miles distant.
Twenty miles of slough, or an unbridged river between two parishes, were greater impediments to intercourse than the Atlantic Ocean now is between England and America.
In two hours Arnold was swept down twenty miles, steering as best he could through the rapids, and avoiding the rocks, in the angry river.
Houses, twenty miles distant, stand out white in the last light of the sun.
Hospitality is universal and it is almost a slight not to call at this time upon any acquaintance living within a distance of twenty miles.
About fifteen miles out there is a sharp turn to the left and down a steep incline with a ravine and stream below on the right,--a dangerous turn at twenty miles an hour, to say nothing of forty or fifty.
It was a good morning to remain indoors and read; but there was that tantalizing machine challenging combat; then, too, Worcester was but eighteen or twenty miles away, and at Worcester we expected to find letters and telegrams.
Even at fifteen or twenty miles an hour the wind is penetrating and goes through everything but the closest of fur.
It is usually worse than useless to inquire in any place about the roads beyond a radius of fifteen or twenty miles; plenty of answers to all questions will be forthcoming, but they simply mislead.
At Delagoa Bay it is some fifteen or twenty miles wide; at Beira it is sixty or eighty miles wide, so that the hills behind cannot be seen from the coast; and farther north it is still wider.
On the other side of the continent, Saldanha Bay, twenty milesnorth of Cape Town, is an excellent harbour.
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