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• Many puzzling facts have been noted since investigating the disease in Pennsylvania, among them being the large percentage of infection in eastern York and southern Lancaster counties, the relative small percentage in certain localities around which the blight is generally prevalent, and recent infections found in Warren and other western counties, a great distance from what is known as the western advance line of the disease Our pathologists have reported some very interesting facts in regard to the dissemination of the blight. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
• At this first map period they also--as just stated--peopled the northern coasts, whilst a mixture of Tlavatli and Toltec race inhabited the western islands, which subsequently formed part of the American continent We now come to the Toltec or 3rd sub-race. —  The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
• The mariners, unaccustomed to such hardships, and not able to govern such unwieldy vessels, yielded to the fury of the storm, and allowed their ships to drive either on the western isles of Scotland, or on the coast of Ireland, where they were miserably wrecked. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
• Well, I was, too Molly straightened her shoulders and pretended contempt, saying I didn't know as gentlemen--'thoroughbreds,' you know--western thoroughbreds ever were fr-fri-ghtened. —  Dorothy on a Ranch
• Of these the chief and most western is the Mobile River, formed by the junction of the Alabama and Tombigbee. —  The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.

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