diftant

The dire effects appear'd in open fight, "J Which frona the caufe he calls a diftant flight, t And yet no larger leap than from the fun to T light.

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795

The ground more diftant, which is feen ftill upwards, over an expanfe of water, not lefs than four miles, confifts of lofty rocks and bold promontaries, here and there fhewing naked and ftorm-bleaked cliffs; and in CUMBERLAND.

A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778

'574 PIOAFSTTA'8 TOTAOE round the WORi. lK Ten leagues eaftward of Buru there is a ftill larger ifland, which is little diftant froni Giailoloy and is called Ambon * • It is inhabited by Moors and Gentiles; the former dwell near the fea, the other in the interior.

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Aftei* leavihg Mangeea, on the afternoon of the 30th, we continued oiur courfe 'northward all that night, and till noon on the 31ft; when we again faw land, in the diredtion of north-eaft-by-north, diftant eight or ten leagues; and next morning, at aght o'clock, we got abreaft of its north end.

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What, the op - poiition who in 1798 and 1799 could raife an ufelrfs army to, fight an enemy 3000 miles diftant from us, alarmed a | the exis - j tence of one raifid for a known, fpecifiedobject — the attack of the 'adjoining provinces of the enemy.

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At eight o'clock in the morning, on the i \ th of March, land was feen from the maft-head, bearing weft, about twelve leagues diftant.

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It would greatly increafe our fliipping and our feamen, which are the true and natural ftrength of this country, extend our naval power, and raife the reputation of this nation; the moft diftant profped of which is

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The port of Saint Anne lies three leagues diftant from Iloilo.

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We arrived in the country called the kingdom of Gambia, where grows the cardamom-tree; it is eight hundred German leagues diftant from Portugal: after this we arrived in the dominions of the King of Furfur, which is twelve hundred Ger - man miles or leagues further diftant, and in which the pepper grows called Portugal pepper.

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At one in the afternoon it began to rain, and continued till fix in the evening, fo, that having but little wind and moft calms, we lay ftill off the fore-mentioned bay, having King William's Ifland ftill in fight, though diftant by judgment fifteen or fixteen leagues weft.

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