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It covers the interfluves between the westermost Amazon River, crossing the basins of the Jutaí, Jurua, Tefé, and Tapauá Rivers east to the Purus River.
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And so the General, being fully advertised of their great extremity, made sail directly back again to Carthagena with the whole fleet; where, having staid eight or ten days more about the unlading of this ship and the bestowing thereof and her men into other ships, we departed once again to sea, directing our course toward the Cape St. Anthony, being the westermost part of Cuba, where we arrived the 27th of April.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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It was all too plentiful, and twenty times the drama was reenacted before approaching day made it necessary for Czuv to take the controls and dive the vessel into the westermost landing-shaft of Zbardk.
Spacehounds of IPC 1927
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And so the General, being fully advertised of their great extremity, made sail directly back again to Carthagena with the whole fleet; where, having staid eight or ten days more about the unlading of this ship and the bestowing thereof and her men into other ships, we departed once again to sea, directing our course toward the Cape St. Anthony, being the westermost part of Cuba, where we arrived the 27. of April.
Drakes Great Armada 1909
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Colombo is the westermost town of that great division of Asia wherein subject races -- black, brown and yellow -- haul the white man in jinrickshaws.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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[4] Now Cuttyhunk, the westermost of the chain of islands called the Elizabeth Islands, which separate Buzzard's Bay from Vineyard
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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While the sun brightly sets o'er yon westermost hill,
The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects Thomas Cowherd 1862
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At the westermost point of this island, we saw a good road-stead, having a small town by the waterside, close to which was a fort or battery.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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The way to find this place at once, is to bring the largest and most conspicuous hill upon the island to bear S.E.; when the ship is in this position, the bay will be open, right in the middle, between two other hills, the westermost of which is called Cross-hill, and gives name to the bay.
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These three islands make a kind of right-angled triangle with each other, the distance between the eastermost and westermost is about eleven miles, and their relative bearings are very nearly east and west.
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