1 It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
2 The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current.
3 The little steam ferry-boat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current.
4 When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself stoutly to his work.
5 So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore.
6 Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.
7 A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.
8 The island was three mile long.
9 Well, when it come dark I tuck out up de river road, en went 'bout two mile er more to whah dey warn't no houses.'
10 I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it.
11 In Hookerville, seven mile below.
12 Goshen's ten mile further up the river.
13 Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go.
14 This second night we run between seven and eight hours, with a current that was making over four mile an hour.
15 It had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.