From how far off do you calculate that those sounds come ?" "I think they must come a mile; and I don't believe I can guess any nearer to it than that, though it is possible they come two miles.
I know little or nothing of the region about here.

Suppose we should go a mile north-northeast from this spot, what should we find there, Mr.
Passford ?" asked Flint, apparently greatly interested in the question.
"It would be a point on Pensacola Bay, about half-way between this island, where we stand, and Town Point," replied Christy.

"I should say it would be in the channel leading into Santa Rosa Sound." "Precisely so!" exclaimed Flint, in an energetic whisper.

"That's the way they are going to take the Teaser out, and they are doing something over there to prepare her for the trip in shallow water." The master's mate was not aware that Christy had suggested to the captain this way of escape for the Teaser, and he had abandoned the idea himself.

Flint had reached his conclusion from his own premises.