distant cities

“Sometimes we lodged at an inn in the woods, where trout-fishers from distant cities had arrived before us, and where, to our astonishment, the settlers dropped in at nightfall to have a chat and hear the news, though there was but one road, and no other house was visible, -- as if they had come out of the earth.”

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Trade was very much on the king’s mind as he traveled throughout Africa and Asia, so he surely inquired about distant cities and valuable commodities from the merchants he met at Bahariya.”

Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great