It's a great way to trace a route quickly.
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This meant they could trace their route around the body.
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Some portions of the present road trace this route.
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There it reverses and traces the route back in the forlorn hope of picking up passengers along the way.
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We've traced the route we think she would have taken but found no clues as to what might have happened to her.
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