I shall not go into the details of its construction--it lies out there in the desert now--about two miles from here.
And we are making seven miles an hour," I concluded for him, as I sat with my eyes upon the distance meter.
At the distance of a
mile and a half from the foot of this narrow channel is a rapid, formed by two rocky islands; and two
miles beyond is a second great fall, over a ledge of rocks twenty feet high, extending nearly from shore to shore.
Not having found a likely spot, they held on for the opposite bank a
mile away.
There, a
mile and a half from the frigate, a long blackish body emerged a yard above the waves.
At half-past two in the morning, the projectile was over the thirteenth lunar parallel and at the effective distance of five hundred
miles, reduced by the glasses to five.
Under these circumstances it is, I believe, quite impossible to explain th transportal of these gigantic masses of rock so many
mile from their parent-source, on any theory except by that o floating icebergs.
Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five
mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
Behind us the glowing desert rolls away to the horizon, and before us lie
mile upon
mile of smooth hard snow almost level, but swelling gently upwards, out of the centre of which the nipple of the mountain, that appears to be some
miles in circumference, rises about four thousand feet into the sky.
Dear little
Miles, dear little
Miles, if you KNEW how I want to help you
During the day she kept along the coast, where the currents were favourable; the coast, irregular in profile, and visible sometimes across the clearings, was at most five
miles distant.
This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical
miles below the equator.
