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  1    1,    1|          making a trial trip a few miles outside the Firth of Clyde.
  2    1,    5|          Clyde, she made seventeen miles an hour, a higher speed
  3    1,    5|           round bullet flying four miles off.~John Mangles understood
  4    1,    8|           islands are scarcely 250 miles from Madeira, a trifling
  5    1,    8|        Anyway, though we are forty miles off, yet I tell you the
  6    1,    9|       length of the straits is 372 miles. Ships of the largest tonnage
  7    1,    9|          for about sixty to eighty miles, as far as Cape Gregory—
  8    1,    9|        splendid panoramas.~Seventy miles after doubling Cape Gregory,
  9    1,   10|        magnificent estuary, twelve miles long and nine broad. The
 10    1,   11|            of the parallel, thirty miles south. No one spoke much
 11    1,   11|         the Bay of Carnero, twenty miles further. But the agents
 12    1,   11|           next day they marched 35 miles or more, and encamped at
 13    1,   11|            of no great depth, some miles above the little town of
 14    1,   13|          see over an area of forty miles. The valley of the Colorado
 15    1,   13|          of the Torbido, about two miles distant, rose the volcano
 16    1,   13|             an enormous mass, many miles in extent, had been displaced
 17    1,   13|      express, at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Not a cry was possible,
 18    1,   14|         where he fell is about two miles up. Between that height
 19    1,   15|     Indians, not further than four miles off at most, where he could
 20    1,   16|    stretches over an extent of 250 miles covered with stunted trees
 21    1,   16|         and bushes; the second 450 miles is clothed with magnificent
 22    1,   16|       herbage, and stops about 180 miles from Buenos Ayres; from
 23    1,   16|         Cordilleras lay full forty miles behind them, the dark outlines
 24    1,   16|             They were still ninety miles from the point where the
 25    1,   17|           after a course of thirty miles and eagerly looked forward
 26    1,   18|         San Lucas about thirty-one miles off. If there should be
 27    1,   18|            minds to go seventy-two miles south, as far as the commencement
 28    1,   18|         peculiar character. Eighty miles south, on the contrary,
 29    1,   18|          of one hundred and thirty miles south; and this was why
 30    1,   20|  Talcahuano, and they had gone 450 miles.~Next morning they crossed
 31    1,   20|            distance of about sixty miles.”~“And when shall we arrive?”~“
 32    1,   20|         also the Chapaleofu, a few miles further on. Soon they were
 33    1,   22|            FLOOD~A DISTANCE of 150 miles separates Fort Independence
 34    1,   22|            a brisk gallop of forty miles, the horses stopped on the
 35    1,   22|         the field of horns lay two miles behind.~Thalcave was somewhat
 36    1,   22|             made a circuit of some miles north and south, and then
 37    1,   22|           in one large bed several miles in extent.~Extreme haste
 38    1,   22|          high time, for about five miles south an immense towering
 39    1,   22|          rising, and less than two miles off the gigantic wave reared
 40    1,   22|        must have gone fully twenty miles an hour.~All hope of delivery
 41    1,   23|            the Major.~“About forty miles at the outside,” replied
 42    1,   26|            was not more than forty miles now that they had to go,
 43    1,   26|          day, though still fifteen miles distant, the proximity of
 44    1,   26|         would be able to keep five miles out.~The Major advised his
 45    1,   26|           ear.~There she was, five miles out, her courses carefully
 46    2,    2|       equal to 11,760 geographical miles; but along the 37th parallel
 47    2,    2|        earth, only represent 9,480 miles. From the American coast
 48    2,    2|           Acunha is reckoned 2,100 miles— a distance which John Mangles
 49    2,    2|           right, we must be eighty miles from it, for the peak of
 50    2,    2|    Inaccessible Island is eighteen miles to the southwest and Nightingale
 51    2,    2|          Nightingale Island is ten miles to the southeast, and this
 52    2,    2|            not more than seventeen miles at most.~In the interim
 53    2,    3|       cleared the thirteen hundred miles which separate the point
 54    2,    3|       there is a distance of 2,900 miles, but with a good sea and
 55    2,    3|       impassable obstacles. Twenty miles of desert separate men more
 56    2,    3|         men more than five hundred miles of ocean.”~Paganel spoke
 57    2,    3|           weather is visible fifty miles off. At eight o’clock, its
 58    2,    3|     distinct islands, thirty-three miles apart, and situated exactly
 59    2,    4|           coast but three thousand miles’ distance. Should the west
 60    2,    4|         Yes, by making two hundred miles in twenty-four hours.”~“
 61    2,    4|            could not have gone ten miles without meeting a fellow-countryman.”~“
 62    2,    5|            not be more than twelve miles off, and better far be in
 63    2,    5|          low-lying shore about six miles distant. They were driving
 64    2,    5|            Soon she was within two miles of the sand-banks, which
 65    2,    6|         Catastrophe, three hundred miles from Cape Bernouilli. The
 66    2,    6|          now. The cape ran out two miles into the sea, and terminated
 67    2,    6|             apparently about three miles off.~“It certainly is a
 68    2,    7|            of natives four hundred miles north of the 37th parallel.
 69    2,    7|             It is a journey of 350 miles, not more. If we go twelve
 70    2,    7|          not more. If we go twelve miles a day it will barely take
 71    2,    9|           It is scarcely sixty-two miles from Cape Bernouilli to
 72    2,    9|         from twenty-five to thirty miles.~Besides, the pace of the
 73    2,    9|         ovine tribe, embraced many miles. Here and there they noticed
 74    2,    9|             after a march of sixty miles in two days, the caravan
 75    2,   10|        come across an animal a few miles further on, and bravely
 76    2,   10|        column of smoke about three miles off, gradually overspreading
 77    2,   10|            gone at the rate of ten miles a day, and his interminable
 78    2,   10|        Black Point Station, twenty miles further north, and bring
 79    2,   11|          flocks were feeding. Some miles farther the wheels of the
 80    2,   11|        reached a point about three miles from Maryborough. The fine
 81    2,   11|          Plains, about one hundred miles to the eastward.~“We are
 82    2,   12|           OF THE LACHLAN~ABOUT two miles from the railway, the plain
 83    2,   12|           tall trees, and as a few miles would not greatly retard
 84    2,   13|            on a little plain a few miles off an assemblage of regular
 85    2,   13|    accident at Camden Bridge, five miles beyond the station at Castlemaine,
 86    2,   13|           think we are two hundred miles from Melbourne, and that
 87    2,   14|           a journey of thirty-five miles, the bullocks arrived, somewhat
 88    2,   14|            an area of seventy-five miles, with a frontage of about
 89    2,   14|            frontage of about eight miles along the Peron, one of
 90    2,   14|      bushmen say.~For four or five miles the chase was vigorously
 91    2,   14|            come and gone.~For five miles further, the horses were
 92    2,   15|            of which extended 1,500 miles, and pierced the clouds
 93    2,   15|        base is not more than eight miles wide. Consequently if the
 94    2,   15|       message was sent two hundred miles over a wild country.~His
 95    2,   15|         the one hundred and twenty miles which lay between them and
 96    2,   15|          after a march of only ten miles, the signal to halt was
 97    2,   15|         they had gone fifteen good miles, and managed to get over
 98    2,   15|          River. Several additional miles were got over, and a forest
 99    2,   16|           is equal to seventy-five miles.”~“And Melbourne is?”~“Two
100    2,   16|        Melbourne is?”~“Two hundred miles off at least.”~“Very good.
101    2,   16|         Grant undertook to go five miles a day. The courageous ladies
102    2,   16|     Victoria frontier, thirty-five miles from here, we might revictual
103    2,   16|            days to go seventy-five miles?” cried Glenarvan.~“At the
104    2,   16|           Go two hundred and fifty miles on foot!” cried the young
105    2,   17|      Wilson. “The convicts must be miles away from here.”~“They were
106    2,   17|           a journey of two hundred miles over an unknown country,
107    2,   17|           a journey of two hundred miles on horseback frightens me.”~“
108    2,   18|            after he had gone a few miles beyond the encampment, out
109    2,   18|        should think, three or four miles, at least.”~“Come,” said
110    2,   18|        must have been attacked two miles off. In what direction?
111    2,   18|          which is full two hundred miles!”~This was true, for Mulrady’
112    2,   18|             He was scarcely thirty miles from Delegete, the first
113    2,   18|         that he had gone about two miles when several men—five, he
114    2,   19|            and Glenarvan went five miles up the river in search of
115    2,   19|            we are only thirty-five miles from Delegete.”~“Yes,” added
116    2,   19|            provisions, thirty-five miles from Delegete, in the midst
117    2,   19|       after a journey of only five miles, they camped under the gum-trees.
118    2,   19|     Delegete was not more than ten miles off, and that evening they
119    2,   19|            of Wellesley, and fifty miles from Twofold Bay.~Means
120    2,   19|         which took place every ten miles. It seemed as if they were
121    2,   19|     traveled on at the rate of six miles an hour.~In the morning
122    2,   19|          little town of Eden, five miles distant. The postilions
123    3,    1|        being only about a thousand miles.~By a singular coincidence
124    3,    4|          the land, which was eight miles off, when he thought it
125    3,    4|     thought it was thirty or forty miles off. The currents had thrown
126    3,    4|         reef sometimes extends for miles along the coast. Could their
127    3,    4|           the land, less than nine miles off.~“Land ho!” cried John
128    3,    5|           you think another twenty miles after crossing the Pampas
129    3,    5|     bravery of our friends. Twenty miles would be nothing in any
130    3,    6|           during a passage of nine miles. Nothing but the masts could
131    3,    6|           The coast was about nine miles off, a distance that a boat
132    3,    6|          noon they were still five miles from shore. A tolerably
133    3,    6|           have capsized about four miles from the shore, and not
134    3,    6|           time they might make two miles. But the wind soon fell
135    3,    6|        distance of less than three miles.~A considerable swell raised
136    3,    7|        hills, and covered by three miles of forts. The native prophets
137    3,    7|      Exactly. We have landed a few miles above Kawhia harbor, where
138    3,    8|           map a distance of eighty miles between Point Kawhia and
139    3,    8|           journey if they made ten miles a day. But instead of following
140    3,    8|            make for a point thirty miles off, at the confluence of
141    3,    8|      immediately. After a fourteen miles’ march, they might well
142    3,    8|       Waipa and Waikato?”~“Fifteen miles; just about what we did
143    3,    8|        four in the afternoon, nine miles had been easily accomplished.
144    3,    8|           to be reached about five miles further on, and there the
145    3,    8|         then suffice for the fifty miles which lay between them and
146    3,    8|             It is Ngarnavahia, two miles below the junction.”~“Well,
147    3,    8|         Grant would not grudge two miles more to find a hotel even
148    3,    8|        fatigued with their fifteen miles’ march.~
149    3,    9|        Slavs. In its course of 200 miles it waters the finest lands
150    3,    9|          and then flows on for 120 miles.~
151    3,   10|      unfathomable gulf twenty-five miles long, and twenty miles broad
152    3,   10| twenty-five miles long, and twenty miles broad was produced, but
153    3,   11|            the fortress, about two miles off at the top of a low
154    3,   14|      calculated it about a hundred miles. Ten days’ march at ten
155    3,   14|             Ten days’ march at ten miles a day, could be done, not
156    3,   15|      morning, they had made twelve miles in twelve hours. The courageous
157    3,   15|         evening they stopped eight miles from the mountains, and
158    3,   15|         this vast extent of twenty miles square, the subterranean
159    3,   15|             at a distance of fifty miles from Maunganamu, Glenarvan
160    3,   15|        they had traveled a hundred miles from Maunganamu, and the
161    3,   15|         the shore was still thirty miles away. John Mangles had calculated
162    3,   15|         very trying; for about ten miles the bush was a tangle of “
163    3,   15|          this moment, scarcely two miles lay between them. It was
164    3,   18|       desert coast, but only forty miles from the penal settlement
165    3,   19|           the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 miles from the American coast,
166    3,   19|          American coast, and 1,500 miles from New Zealand. The nearest
167    3,   19|         whale. It was still thirty miles distant from the yacht,
168    3,   19|         Maria Theresa, though five miles to leeward, appeared only
169    3,   20|            uninhabited island, two miles broad and five long, with
170    3,   20|       spars of the ship, but 1,500 miles lay between us and the nearest