marine league
Americannoun
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It has been said that the Proserpine, when this incident occurred, was off the point of the Campanella, distance about half a marine league.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
Accordingly he set sail from the harbor of Havana, and cruised up and down at a distance of more than a marine league from the coast, awaiting the appearance of the vessel.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by Jackson, W. C.
By international consent the jurisdiction of a country bordering on the "high seas" is a line one marine league seaward from the margin of the land, and following its meanders.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
The easy going governor contented himself with a written statement of Captain Semmes that the captures were made outside of the marine league.
From Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Goodrich, Albert M.
In Spain people never count by miles; the land league equals three miles, and the marine league four miles.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus
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