Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Rennie” in chapter 29, page 301 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies:
...The road runs close to a railroad, here and there crossing and recrossing till it reaches a stream called Kettle Run.
There the road is on the right of the railroad.
The crossing was bad, so that Captain Rennie took another road leading off into higher land.
This route returns the traveller soon to the main road, but takes a circuit of half a mile
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