At two leagues' distance, the cavalcade, winding into the skirts of the Alpujarras, ascended an eminence commanding the last view of Granada.

On the night of Saturday, September isth, being then almost three hundred leagues west of Ferro, they saw a prodigious flash of light, or fire-ball, drop from the sky into the sea, at four or five leagues' distance from the ships, toward the southwest.

We went from this island to another in the vicinity, at ten leagues' distance, and found a very large village, the houses of which were built over the sea, like Venice, with much ingenuity.

THE FISHERMAN At a few leagues' distance from Arbogad's castle he came to the banks of a small river, still deploring his fate, and considering himself as the most wretched of mankind.

Many a wealthy citizen was dragged to trial four leagues' distance, tied to a horse's tail.

It was accompanied by no shock: and, what is very remarkable, was as loud on the coast as at eighty leagues' distance inland; and at Caraccas, as well as at Calabozo, preparations were made to put the place in defence against an enemy who seemed to be advancing with heavy artillery.'

Behind the sea, which makes a deep indentation in the line of the coast, extended the plain, bounded on the east, at two leagues' distance, by a range of hills covered with luxuriant olive groves, and still higher, by the distant mountains of Galilee.

It produced a ferment in the kingdom, which grew steadily for nine months, and vented itself in July 1909 in the coup d'état of the 'Military League', a second-hand imitation of the Turkish 'Committee of Union and Progress'.

Greece, without army or allies, was obviously not in a position to incur another war, and the 'Military League' thus found that it had reached the end of its tether.

Upon the royal invitation Venezelos exchanged Kretan for Greek citizenship, and took in hand the 'Military League'.

At four leagues' distance from the camp it had just left, the rear-guard of the crusaders, harassed by clouds of Saracens, was obliged to halt.

"He had," says Froissart, "couriers going a-horseback night and day, who, from one day to the next, brought him news from eighty or a hundred leagues' distance, by help of relays posted from town to town."

Parliament hesitated and postponed a reply; the procedure followed its course; and at the end of some months further the king ordered it to be stopped, and Sires de la Riviere and Neviant to be set at liberty and to have their real property restored to them, at the same time that they lost their personal property and were commanded to remain forever at fifteen leagues' distance, at least, from the court.

After several other acts of reparation which were imposed upon him, he was to be sent into exile for twenty years beyond the seas, and on his return to remain at twenty leagues' distance, at least, from the king and the royal family.

Philip II. remained at some leagues' distance in the environs.

Your library might go by water, and there would not be four leagues' journey by land.

The engagement took place on the 27th, at thirty leagues' distance from Wessant and about the same from the Sorlingues Islands.

At 4 leagues' distance from here rich gold deposits have been found in certain rivers and streams.

But if this sacred gift you disesteem, Then cruel plagues (which Heaven divert on them!) Shall fall on Priam's state: but if the horse Your walls ascend, assisted by your force, A league 'gainst Greece all Asia shall contract; Our sons then suff'ring what their sires would act.'

I'D SUNDAY LEAGUE 'EM, IF I'D A CHANCE!BREAKIN' THE LORD'SD'Y, AND HINTERFERIN' WITH MY TRYDE!"] * *