There is a line of these oases extending along this westerly depression, and some of them are of considerable extent.
The most westerlyof the three valleys to which we have alluded is only a slight depression of the surface of the land marked by a line of oases.
On the following morning (September 4th) we reached Oatafu, the most westerly island of the group, and the ship was hove to at about three miles distance from that part of the island where the native settlement is situated.
We reached the bay after steaming for two hours against a westerly breeze and chopping sea, and landed on its western shore.
But on the 26th of July, being then, as we esteemed, about three hundred leagues distant from the Ladrones, we met with a westerly wind, which did not come about again to the eastward in four days time.
France, by edict in 1634, endeavoured to obviate this inconvenience, by directing the first meridian to be placed in the island of Ferro, the most westerly of the Canaries.
The ship having received her cargo on board, and being fitted for the sea, generally weighs from the mole of Cabite about the middle of July, taking the advantage of the westerly monsoon, which then sets in, to carry them to sea.
They went thus far to the north and west on purpose to have the advantage of a westerly wind, which seldom failed of sending them into soundings at one spirt, if not quite home.
The heavy artillery fire which was visible for several miles in a westerly direction in the valley of the Aisne showed that the Sixth French Army was meeting with strong opposition all along the line.
After wandering along the westerly and southerly roads I started for Paris when thousands and scores of thousands were flying from it.
Had it not been for the accident of a westerly gale, they would not have had even so much assistance.
The night had set in with a highwesterly wind, and threatened rain.
Along the south coast of the Australian continent, though the usual westerly winds and gales of the highest latitudes prevail during the greater portion of the year, hurricanes are not infrequent.
The snow was by this time falling thickly and a rising westerly wind was sweeping the marsh making travelling exceedingly difficult, and completely hiding the trail beyond the trees.
At sunrise there was a slight westerly breeze blowing, and the skipper suggested, "Th' wind might stiffen up a bit an' we better keep an eye to it.
Fortunately he could read the compass, and by its aid took as nearly as possible a due westerly course.
For many miles the shore rose in precipitous rocks, and should a westerly gale arise while they were passing this point, the ice was likely to break away and no escape could be made to the shore.
Finally a westerly turn was taken, and he wondered what their goal might be.
The following morning a westerly breeze was blowing and the Eskimos were uncertain whether to keep to the land or follow the sea ice along the shore.
A day early in August saw us out in the broad Gulf of Mexico, all of the Pearl's sails set to the westerly breeze.
We plunged again into the forest, and were careful to keep the moon on our left; this insured our holding our course in a westerly direction.
Unaided by compass or nautical science, we were steering almost at random, vaguely guessing at a south-westerly course, from the position of the rising and setting sun.
On the 22d, the regiment moved its camp in order to get out of the range of the enemy’s guns, which were stationed on the westerly side of the Rappahannock.
The summit and westerly side of the mountain, down which the Confederates fled, gave proof of the extreme panic which seized them at the close of the battle; guns, blankets, and equipments were scattered about the ground in great profusion.
The fresh westerly wind now died away, and was succeeded by light airs from the S.
These observations could not be taken with the greatest accuracy, on account of the rolling of the ship, occasioned by a very high westerly swell.
The great westerly swell, which still continued, made it improbable that land of any considerable extent lay to the west.
We continued our westerlycourse till eight o'clock in the evening, when we steered N.
The wind, which had blown westerly all day, having shifted at once to the east, we put to sea; and I was obliged to dismiss my friends sooner than they wished to go; but well satisfied with the reception they had met with.
Beyond the lee of the island the westerly still lashed the Gulf.
But if the westerly freshens--and it nearly always does in the afternoon--I can outsail the Gull.
The man in the sloop could only stand on, hoping for the usual afternoon westerly to show its teeth.
Although the vessels sailed from Deptford on February 16th, they were detained in the Channel and at Falmouth by westerly gales till March 19th.
John's, Newfoundland, with a prospect of a continuance of westerly winds, it became necessary to use the strictest economy.
A westerly breeze is springing up, and I think you'd better go on to Fort Pelican," Doctor Joe suggested.
Methodically he gathered some stones and erected a small pedestal upon which to rest his compass while he ran his westerly line.
Skipping along now, the Spray passed Home Island, off the pitch of the cape, soon after midnight, and squared away on a westerly course.
Clark, came on board and gave me directions for Waterloo Bay, about three miles to leeward, for which I bore up at once, finding good anchorage there in a sandy cove protected from all westerly and northerly winds.
Withlacoochee, flowing in a general north-westerly direction from its source in the N.
She had at first held a north-westerly course in order to avoid passing over Libau, then in the possession of the Germans.
Then, after that particular business is completed the machines are to resume the westerly, or north-westerly course, and alight on Russian soil, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Riga.
It was a monoplane, flying fairly low, and proceeding in a westerly direction with a decided tendency to describe a right-handed curve.
A hurried consultation told Blake that, allowing for the almost cross-set of the northerly wind, half an hour's flight in a north-westerly direction ought to bring them within recognisable distance of home.
On the morning, says Mr. Cumming, I rode into camp, after unsuccessfully following the spoor of a herd of elephants for two days, in a westerly course.
At length we reached the spot where we were obliged to bid adieu to the Mariqua, and hold a westerly course across the country for Sicheley.
A faintwesterly air was curling the water, and towards midnight the watchers on board the galleons made out dimly several ships which seemed to be drifting down upon them.
In the latitude of Cape Horn a westerly gale blows for ever round the globe; the waves the highest anywhere known.
A fierce westerly gale drove them 600 miles to the south-east outside the Horn.
On the 16th the column set out from Waterval in a north-westerly direction, the objective being Secoconi's country and Magnet Heights.
On one occasion only was I able to taste of its waters; in a small arm of the lake near the most north-westerly part of it, which I visited, and here the water was as salt as the sea.
During my absence, the overseer, according to my instructions, had put a party of men to dig for water in the bed of the creek, about four miles from the depot, in a westerly direction and down upon the plains.
