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As cattle ranching spread northward into California and Texas, Americans adopted the tools and techniques of the vaquero.
Previous studies have shown that during the solar maximum, the jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere moves northward.
The focus of mining then shifted back to the upper level, and during the 1980s a tunnel was driven northward into the quarry wall.
The northern extension of the active rain area may approach no further northward than the northern hinterland of the Cape west coast.
Ground beetles and spiders likewise may be carried northward on rafts of vegetation.
Additionally, all five species that were studied individually exhibited highly significant northward movement in the spring.
During unusually mild winter weather and during the summer, the jet stream retreats northward into Canada.
You need very calm surface conditions and a northward current in Jack Sound, but not so strong as to cause turbulent overfalls.
Both Gordon and Kuchler mapped northward extensions of oak along river valleys into southern New York.
An hour later, after nightfall, he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come.
The northward migration peaks from mid-April to early May, and the fall migration peaks in August.
On its northward journey it cut across Iraq south of Baghdad and followed the mountains north into Iraqi Kurdistan.
It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone.
Allardyce's Brazilian target may be slipping away from him in a northward direction, however.
These rocks are preserved within a south-verging imbricate thrust stack of thin northward younging tectonic slices.
These waterfowl migrate early in spring and move northward from their wintering grounds as soon as wetlands become ice-free.
The Hawaiian and Azores High intensify and expand northward into their relative ocean basins.
They grade both northward and southward into coalesced alluvial fans forming the bajada that flanks the margins of the mountains.
It has been argued that a native Finnic population absorbed northward migrating Indo-Europeans who adopted the Finnic language.
The second stretches northward along the littoral, fanning outward to the east in a broad arc encompassing the area around Aleppo.
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He himself went northward to the sea, and took up his abode in an island which is called Odinse, in funen.
Then he pressed a farewell kiss on the Amalekite boy's forehead, the lad sprang ashore, and the journey northward began.
The argali ranges over the steppes, or inland plains of Central Asia, northward and eastward to the ocean.
We started to take these pack trains home, going northward through Sonora, but when near casita, Mexican troops overtook us.
It lies at an elevation of about 500 ft. on the bleak northward slope of the Chiltern Hills.
Towards afternoon, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus began to appear moving northward.
The northern boundary of the Park should be extended northward beyond Gardiner, or else the deathtrap should be moved elsewhere.
Two leagues northward from sana is a plain named Rodda, which is overspread with gardens and watered by a number of rivulets.
That the descendants of the gomer moved northward and established themselves in parts of Germany seems to be an established fact.
Mount William and the Grampian range presented a noble outline to the northward.
He marched northward to Grand Junction, in Tennessee, a distance of eighty miles, living off the country.
The next is the Myall tribe, who inhabit the central parts about Cudduldury, at the Great Bend of the Bogan to the northward.
Towards evening, when the tides of travel set northward, it is curious to see how the gripman and conductor reverse their tempers.
We now pass northward to the region covered by map No. 14, including the remainder of Ophiuchus and Serpens.
For a little while I halted at Hastie's gate, and watched with interest the northward rush of the afternoon express.
Being now well to the eastward of the Society Islands I steered more to the northward.
To northward and southeastward a horizon line of low uplands, misty purple.
On the 31st, to my mortification, the river held so much to the northward, that we undid almost all our southing.
This hydroid is found creeping over seaweeds in tide-pools from Long Island Sound northward.
Dunedin is connected by rail with Christchurch northward and Invercargill southward, with numerous branches.
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