geographical mile
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geographical miles
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By geographical mile is here meant, I suppose, the nautical mile of sixty to an equatorial degree, or about 2,025 yards.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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
Indeed, in nautical parlance, the words knot and mile are synonyms, alluding to the geographical mile of 60′ to a degree of latitude.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
As he often zigzagged, the geographical mile represented considerably, more.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
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