geographical mile
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geographical miles
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This at first does not appear much; but is, nevertheless, a considerable tax, when it is remembered that seven wersts are only equal to a geographical mile, and that three horses are always used.
From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer
Between 82° and 81° we came into our old marks of the second depot journey; on that trip we had marked this distance with splinters of packing-case at every geographical mile.
From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 by Arthur G. Chater
As he often zigzagged, the geographical mile represented considerably, more.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
Mr. Kendall and I were employed in measuring a geographical mile on the small lake, preparatory to a series of observations on the velocity of sound.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
Kladen informs us that the sedimentary matter transported to the sea by the Rhine would amount to a cubic geographical mile in five thousand years.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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