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... miles . It is 60 miles wide at its mouth , 4 miles wide at a distance of 1000 miles from the sea , and more than 1 mile wide at a distance of 2000 miles from the sea . The river drains an area of 2,500,000 square miles , which equals ...
... miles . It is 60 miles wide at its mouth , 4 miles wide at a distance of 1000 miles from the sea , and more than 1 mile wide at a distance of 2000 miles from the sea . The river drains an area of 2,500,000 square miles , which equals ...
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... miles west of Baltimore . By 1810 it had moved 36 miles , westward and slightly southward , to a point about 40 miles northwest by west from Wash- ington , the southward movement appearing to have been due to the annexation of the ...
... miles west of Baltimore . By 1810 it had moved 36 miles , westward and slightly southward , to a point about 40 miles northwest by west from Wash- ington , the southward movement appearing to have been due to the annexation of the ...
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... miles an hour as it issues from the Gulf of Mexico ; off Cape Hatteras the velocity is about three miles an hour , while off Newfound- land it is reduced to one and one - half miles per hour . In its passage across the Atlantic , the ...
... miles an hour as it issues from the Gulf of Mexico ; off Cape Hatteras the velocity is about three miles an hour , while off Newfound- land it is reduced to one and one - half miles per hour . In its passage across the Atlantic , the ...
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