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They lay at a distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty geographic miles from the Nile, and varied in size from a few to a few tens of square kilometers in area.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah

The latitude of Cape Constitution was overstated fifty-two geographic miles by Kane and thirty-one miles by Morton, while Kennedy Channel, instead of being thirty-five miles wide, ranges only from seventeen to twenty-five.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

They lay at a distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty geographic miles from the Nile, and varied in size from a few to a few tens of square kilometres in area.

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander

Its length was about five hundred and fifty miles, and its breadth, from the mountains to the Pacific, from three hundred to three hundred and fifty geographic miles.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

The base line for my survey of the Sound was of 2.46 geographic miles, measured round the curve of the long beach between the two harbours.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew