Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.

North and south, east and west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked bay, plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then turning to repeat the process, day after day, week after week.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

In the west the zone of high land is broader but somewhat lower.

When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.

But more probably he contemplated some unknown land in the far west beyond the ocean, like the fabled Atlantis of Plato ..."

Moses grants their request after they promise to help in the conquest of the land west of the Jordan.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

However, being still in sight of his native land he moved further north up the west coast of Scotland.

In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.

Jarvis Field was at the time a patch of land at the northern point of the Harvard campus, bordered by Everett and Jarvis Streets to the north and south, and Oxford Street and Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west.

The battle itself has long been regarded as a key moment in the Saxon advance, since in reaching the Bristol Channel, the West Saxons divided the Britons west of the Severn from land communication with those in the peninsula to the south of the Channel.

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

Elbląg is situated in flat land extending to the west in the Vistula Delta ( Żuławy Wiślane ) used mainly for agricultural purposes.

The wind direction is from the sea towards the land, or from west towards east.

The usage of the word Hindu was popularized for Arabs and further west by the Arabic term al-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus and the Persian term Hindū referring to all Indians.

Strabo's Iberia was delineated from Keltikē by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass south-west ( he named it " west ") of there.

Native Americans would relinquish land in the east in exchange for equal or comparable land west of the Mississippi River.

The line was drawn through the Cross River estuary to the west of the peninsula, thereby implying Cameroonian ownership over Bakassi.

A homestead act was one of three United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a " homestead " – typically 160 acres ( 65 hectares or one-fourth section ) of undeveloped federal land west of the Mississippi River.

The Treaty of Fontainebleau ( 1762 ) was signed between France and Spain and ownership of the Louisiana territory west of the Mississippi River was transferred to the Spanish crown as a result of the Seven Years ' War and Craighead County became a Spanish possession.

Because New England claimed ownership west to the Hudson River a border dispute broke out.

Dorchester remained a compact town within the boundaries of the old town walls until the latter part of the 19th century due to the ownership of all land immediately adjacent to the west, south and east by the Duchy of Cornwall.

The change of ownership in 1066 was a change from one alien landlord to another, and the name Alverton lives on as the western part of Penzance from St John ’ s Hall, to the housing estate on the west side of the River Laregan.

The station and the line are now in the ownership of a private company, the Epping Ongar Railway Ltd who, at time of purchase, publicly stated their intention to run commuter services again, but the claimed lack of platform availability at London Underground's Epping station at the west end of the line has to date proven an insuperable obstacle to this.

The west wing was built in 1910, long after Disraeli's death, when the house was in the ownership of his nephew Coningsby Disraeli.

* Penrose, Porthleven, a country house ( in private ownership ) and National Trust estate in west Cornwall, including Loe Pool and Bar

Allotment 17 ( west to Norm Clark Walk ) came into the ownership of the Woolcotts.

The road network was upgraded to deal with projected increases in car ownership and new housing estates were developed to the west, then to the south and finally to the north of the designated area.

Other reasons for the distress situation in the lake are a ) jhum ( shifting ) cultivation, b ) extensive deforestation and unscientific land use practices in the catchment areas which bring large amount of silt into the lake and c ) undefined ownership of the lake where the stakeholders are the districts of Imphal west district, Bishnupur and Thoubal causing lack of integrated approach to the lakes potential for providing benefits.

Under Kelly Broadcasting's ownership, KCPQ relocated its studio to Seattle in 1997 ( moving to the shores of Lake Union in what was then the second fully digital television studio facility on the west coast ).

The ownership group invested over $ 3 million in renovations including lodge renovations, upgrades to the snowmaking capacity, and several new dining options, including a brick oven pizzeria and tavern located in the west lodge.

By the start of the present century all but one of the village gates had been demolished, while the Augustinian Friary, in private ownership between the late 16th century and the mid-1820s, had its west tower removed in 1835.

The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was organized in 1877 to build from near the Massachusetts / Vermont border, where state ownership ended, parallel to the Troy and Boston Railroad to near Johnsonville, New York and then west via Schenectady to Rotterdam Junction on what became the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway in 1880.

GRT had purchased neighbouring Eastern Scottish ( now trading as SMT once more ) the previous month, and with its ownership of Midland Bluebird ( the old Midland Scottish ), GRT operated across a substantial part of central Scotland, from Oban in the west coast to the border with England.

In December 2002, ancestral lands, including the park, were returned to community ownership and the governments of South Africa and Namibia embarked on the development of a transfrontier park from the west coast of southern Africa to the desert interior, absorbing the Richtersveld National Park.

As the riding encompasses the downtown core and large swaths of apartment blocks in the communities west and south of downtown, Calgary Centre has a low home ownership rate compared to the rest of Canada.

The Vos family retained ownership of the properties, including two shopping centres in the north and north west of Tasmania.

Auckland City, in its plans to transform the ' Tank Farm ' ( a large industrial wharf area further to the west ) into residential and / or park areas, has stated that it will be vital to secure the western viaduct area in public ownership ( as the eastern edge already is ), so that the area can be managed as a single regional facility.