These were the Blackfeet Indians, who ranged over a wide extent of country which they would have to traverse.
Mudiford possesses a fine level sandy beach, of wide extent, admirably adapted for sea-bathing, and commanding a variety of scenes and objects of great beauty.
Placed at a sufficient elevation to enable him to embrace a wide extent of land and water, he is still sufficiently near the town to secure that distinctness of detail which adds so much to the effect of a landscape.
On the coast the rock scenery is truly magnificent, and from the heights the eye ranges over a wide extent of cultivated land, abounding in every variety of nature, and terminated by the distant outline of the mountain tops.
They would thus explore a wide extent of country, and would, they hoped, find a suitable spot for forming a fresh location.
Leaving the scrub, they reached some open downs of wide extent.
They had just mounted a slight ridge, and before them spread out a wide extent of level land.
Now we had passed the sandbank, and a wide extent of water lay between us and the negro army.
Though the appearance of the people was not attractive, they were more civilised than I had expected, and in the neighbourhood of the village we saw a wide extent of fairly cultivated ground.
The heat was very great, and we had a wide extent of country before us, the soil consisting of light-coloured soft sand, which appeared incapable of producing any green thing for the support of animals.
After some trouble, we reached the top, whence we found a fine view up and down the river, and over a wide extent of forest on either side.
In over a fourth of the states there are state societies, while in most of the states there are also alumni associations of the special schools, which are of state-wide extent.
From the beginning of organized instruction of the deaf in America a system of signs has been in use to a wide extent.
Though there is little call for such establishments to a wide extent, and though the proportion of the deaf to be benefited by them is small,[113] yet for a number of the deaf there is a peculiar need.
A large proportion of metalliferous veins have their opposite walls nearly parallel, and sometimes over a wide extent of country.
It is a remarkable deposit, from its position, wide extent, and thickness, its homogeneous mineral composition, and freshwater origin.
There was a wide extent of plain covered with richly green grass, and here and there sprinkled with clumps of trees, under which herds of deer crouched in the shade, while others browsed around.
Throughout a wide extent of the arid southwest the ruins of ancient pueblos, irrigation canals, remnants of pottery, the latter frequently marking village sites on isolated eminences, bear witness of a formerly widely spread people.
A modification of this genuine Indian lodge, or tepee, in which cotton cloth is substituted for the primitive covering, may be seen over a wide extent of the country to the west of the Mississippi at the present day (Fig.
This evidence shows that the present land over a wide extent of the Caribbean region was formerly deeply submerged.
But we have just stated that the remains last mentioned are identical with those found in Northern Ohio, and indeed over a wide extent of country.
The ridge on which it stands is not only in the midst of a wild, rough region, but is so situated that it commands a wide extent of country.
Distant groups were so related, each commanding a wide extent of country, and thus group answers to group, and mound to mound, for miles away, making a complete system throughout the region.
In olden times their lower courses must have been deep inlets of the sea, thus dividing those hills into five groups, each separated from the other by a wide extent of water and marsh land.
They had to descend the great stair-case, and, after passing over a wide extent of the chateau, to ascend another, which led to the suite of rooms they were in quest of.
Many noble trees were levelled with the ground, and others, to a wide extent, were entirely stripped of their upper branches.
It is picturesquely situated on a hill, on which stand about twenty churches, overlooking a wide extent of wooded country, with a magnificent river flowing through it.
Some large red-brick houses appeared above the low huts in the outskirts, with a large reed-bordered lagoon, and a wide extent of dead level covered with low shrubs or rank dry grass.
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