The broad drives sweep round to a carriage-turning area by the north façade of the house. The park is mainly pastureland with informal plantings of specimen trees, designed to create pleasant vistas. There are two water features to the northeast of the house. The formal gardens and pleasure grounds are situated close to the house, with an area of informal pleasure grounds extending to the south-east.
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The course was now changed to head directly for South Georgia. They were clear of the dangers of floating ice but had reached the dangerous seas of the Drake Passage, where giant waves sweep round the globe, unimpeded by any land. The movement of the ship made preparing hot food on the Primus nearly impossible, but Crean, who acted as cook, somehow kept the men fed. The next observation, on 29 April, showed that they had travelled .
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The game consists of three teams of two, each with a clock that starts with 60 seconds on it. The teams then attempt to add as much time as possible to their clock by answering questions and riddles posed by the host. The time they accumulate determines how long they have in the 'Big Sweep' round to run around a studio mock-up of a supermarket, collecting shopping items. The team with the shopping trolley filled with items of the most value wins the chance to enter the final 'Super Sweep' prize round.
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The north bank of the Clyde was not developed for some time, and railway access was difficult. The main lines built at the end of the decade ran east and south, and although construction through, and under, the central area was proposed, opposition was so strong that it was not carried out. The Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD&HR;) was opened in 1858, but it ran in a broad northern sweep round the city, through Maryhill (then a remote small town) and did not approach the Clyde until it reached Bowling.
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In the rear of the Sisapara bungalow, there is an almost > unrivalled view of the Malabar plains, from the edge of a precipice. The > Kundah hills sweep round until they join the Wyanad range, and appeared to > be so steep that even a cat could not scale them for many miles; and far > below were the forests, with occasional open glades. The distance from > Sisapara to Utakamand, the chief English station on the Nilgiris, is thirty- > three miles, fifteen of which are over the Kundah hills, and the rest of the > distance is within the Nilgiris proper.
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By this time the North British Railway (NBR) had taken over the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway, and the NBR built a line to the dock. The Stobcross Railway opened in 1874, for goods and mineral traffic only. The Stobcross line ran in a wide sweep round the north of Glasgow through Maryhill, then a remote rural town, and then south and south- east through Partick, where there was a goods station. Also in 1874 the Whiteinch Railway opened; this was also a goods-only railway, running from the Stobcross line south to a Whiteinch goods station on the Dumbarton Road.
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The Fortrose branchThe Highland Railway was established in 1865 and became dominant in the area of Scotland between Perth, Inverness and north and west of there. The relatively thin population density in its area of influence meant that great profitability was not available to the company, and it fought strenuously to retain dominance in the area that it considered belonged to it alone. It operated the Far North Railway Line from Inverness to Wick and Thurso, but the difficult geography meant that the line formed a wide sweep round the western end of the Black Isle, to avoid crossing the Beauly Firth and the Cromarty Firth. The Highland Railway was surprised when in 1889 the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) proposed the construction of a railway to Fortrose, a town on the Black Isle located on the coast of the Moray Firth opposite Fort George.
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But the winds had failed; and so, too, the > smart captain of the Flying Fish evidently thought had the Sailing > Directions. The Sailing Directions advise the navigator to cross the calm > belt in as straight a line as the winds will allow, not fearing the land > about Cape St. Roque, or the current that is supposed to sweep round it. > Nickels, forgetting that the charts are founded on the experience of great > numbers, being tempted, turned a deaf ear to the caution, and flung away > three whole days and more of most precious time dallying in the doldrums. He > spent two days about the parallel of 3 degrees north, and his ship left the > doldrums, after this waste of time, nearly upon the same meridian at which > she entered them. She was still in 34 degrees, the current keeping her back > just as fast as she could fan east.
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Meanwhile, the battalions of the Imperial Camel Brigade, continued their advance over the flat ground for , section by section, covering fire provided by each section in turn. Dismounted advance towards Magdhaba by the alt=Dismounted light horsemen at a distance By 12:00 all brigades were hotly engaged, as the 3rd Light Horse Brigade's 10th Light Horse Regiment continued their sweep round the garrison's right flank. An hour later, the right of the Imperial Camel Brigade battalions had advanced to reach the 1st Light Horse Brigade and 55 minutes afterwards, fierce fighting was beginning to make an impact on the Ottoman garrison. Reports continued of small numbers of Ottoman troops retreating, but by 14:15 the 10th Light Horse Regiment was continuing its trek after capturing Aulad Ali; moving across the Wadi el Arish, round Hill 345 to attack the rear of Redoubt No. 4. By 14:55 the frontal attack by the Imperial Camel Brigade was within of the Ottoman defences and, together with the 1st Light Horse Brigade, at 15:20, they attacked No. 2 redoubt.
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