| 单词 | tableland |
| 例句 | Atop my list of recommendations are hikes around Um Bogma, a ghost town atop rugged tablelands in the northwest corner of the trail, near the Suez Canal. The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In every direction, reddish-brown tableland sprawled to the horizon, broken here and there by pinyon-juniper forest. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Fish Slough, a National Natural Landmark on the eastern edge of the tablelands, includes vivid petroglyphs chipped into bizarrely eroded volcanic tuff formations that overlook a verdant desert oasis laced with meandering spring-fed creeks. Caltech 'deeply' regrets drilling holes in sacred Native American petroglyph site 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z With its odd mesh of rainforests and moon-like tablelands, the landscape changes abruptly from Yorkshire Dale to Jurassic Park, while the night skies are a blowout of frighteningly bright nebula. ‘Rainfall has rocketed’: the remote weathermen charting the climate crisis 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Equally striking, Amirov’s team found dozens of desert kites arrayed like a giant net across a hundred miles of tablelands east of the Aral Sea. Giant ‘Arrows’ Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Plans to introduce casinos fizzled and the famous wild horses in the surrounding tablelands couldn't draw enough tourism to dent the deficit. Pot sales healing economic woes of the Colorado town of DeBeque 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Stormy weather also ripped off the roof of a home in Armidale in the northern tablelands. 'Antarctic vortex' settling in across NSW and Victoria, say meteorologist 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z One night, the sound of heavy gunfire terrified a team that Kröpelin had led to Erdi Ma, an uninhabited and largely unexplored tableland in the northwest corner of Chad. Science in the Sahara: Man of the desert 2012-08-15T17:21:20.943Z Maize is very prolific throughout the littoral and on the tableland. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z I think we had never seen anything so green since we came up on to the tableland of Tibet. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Thence we descended to the narrow tableland, where the grass was knee-deep and native villages were many. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z On the first day of the first month, New Year’s day, Noah removed the covering of the ark, which seems to have stranded on the Armenian tableland, and looked out upon the new world. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Himalaya have been formed by violent crumpling of the earth’s crust along the southern margin of the great tableland of Central Asia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z These three zones lend themselves, in turn, to a tripartite subdivision of littoral, tableland, and Western plain. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z In Tibet a high tableland, averaging 13,000 feet, is reached. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The Peruvians, born and bred upon the western sea-board or the great tablelands beyond the Andes, were not able to survive in the humid atmosphere of the tropic forest. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z The Martineta inhabits the elevated tablelands, and is found chiefly where patches of scattered dwarf scrub occur among the thorny thickets. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z The mountains are scored by numerous khors, whose lower courses can be traced across the tableland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The two rivers which determine the character and nature of the depression between the Syrian plateau and the tableland of Iran rise at no great distance from each other on the mountains of Armenia. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z Their track skirted the tableland, and as the journal states, the country was barren and inhospitable in the extreme. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z From a geographical point of view the northern portion consists of a barren tableland; towards the south it becomes wooded, and in the vicinity of the towns the ground is fairly well cultivated. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z It winds over a limestone base and through a rainless desert between high and barren tablelands. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Sloping heights rise from the main tableland in all directions, crested with broken masses of granite, locally named tors, and often singularly fantastic in outline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Moreover, the plains rise in three or four tablelands as they run toward the Rockies, and the strength of the northwest wind increases with their elevation. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Several other pioneers occupied runs on the Barkly tablelands, which was recognised as some of the finest pastoral land in Queensland. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z We were now on the summit of the tableland; the bounded river valley gradually gave way to long stretches where signs of cultivation were more apparent. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z This fall is produced by the river flowing from a tableland of sandstone and conglomerate into a deep valley 822 ft. below. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In about half an hour I came to a little tableland of greensward, which hung over a grey abyss. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z As Archie and his companion came upon the plain where—near the top of the creek on a bit of tableland—Craig’s “castle,” as he called it, was situated, the owner looked anxiously towards it. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The lava has flowed over the original sandstone formation, and formed a level tableland now broken and covered with black, porous blocks of lava of every size. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z It was dark before we reached the edge of the tableland again, and I shouted down in the hopes of getting an answer which would guide us to the encampment below. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z The beds extend to the tablelands on which the capital is situated, stretching as far as the Department of Jalapa, where the lead disappears sometimes completely, the silver being found alone. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z Bogs are to be found all over the country—on the lonely tablelands as in the inhabited valleys. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z He rode away in search of the tribe, and after a long ride found them encamped on a tableland. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z They followed up the now dry river, and reached a fine tableland over 1,000 feet above sea level, which was called Barkly’s Tableland, after Sir Henry Barkly, late Governor of Victoria. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The Indian thought he had found a spot they haunted, and after breakfast led the others across a small tableland. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Fresh camp was pitched that night under the shadow of a gigantic column of jagged rock that rose perpendicularly above the tableland of the peak. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Range.—Mexican tableland, migrating north to western Texas, northern New Mexico, southern Nevada and southeastern California; winters in Mexico. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Here the surface of the country lies from 5000 to 9000 ft. above sea-level, being a tableland region of buttes and mesas diversified by lava intrusions, flows and cinder cones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z On the flat tableland dividing the Gulf waters from those flowing towards the Thomson, were a series of large shallow swamps, known as Billy Webb’s Lake, a kind of halting place for stock. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z When the deer broke from the fern at the edge of the tableland Jimmy did not shoot. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Archie's frank friendliness towards herself had undergone a subtle change, while his relations with her sister remained precisely on the same calm tableland of comradeship. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Range.—Southern border of Mexican tableland north in spring to southern Arizona. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z He observes that the ranges in this part of the Gobi are much worn down and wasted, like the Kuruk-tagh farther west and the tablelands of S.E. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z From Marlborough, a small village on the outward stock route, the track led out west towards Peak Downs, a beautiful tableland discovered by Leichhardt. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z This tableland, the hydrographic centre of West Africa, is most elevated in its southern parts, where heights of 5000 ft. are found. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Here we are to spend the Sunday, and the caravan is trotted on to a high bit of tableland, which is in reality a stackyard, but overlooks the whole village. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Range.—"Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, west to the Sierra Nevada, and south through New Mexico, Arizona and the tablelands of Mexico to Guatemala." Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Ghazni stands on the high tableland of central Afghanistan, in 68� 18′ E. long., Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z The route followed from the borders of Queensland was by the track that Leichhardt took on his journey to Port Essington, between the tableland and salt water, crossing the Macarthur, Roper, Calvert, and other rivers. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z Meantime the bottom of the sea was being explored and a vast tableland was discovered stretching from Newfoundland to Ireland. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z The rainfall is greatest in the Bavarian tableland and the hilly regions of western Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Range.—"From western and southern Texas across east border of tablelands of Mexico." Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Composed of Silurian slates chiefly, it forms an extensive tableland at the north of Killary Fiord, in the south-west corner of Mayo. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z In this way volcanic tablelands have been formed which, attacked by the denuding forces, are gradually trenched by valleys and ravines, until the original level surface of the lava-field may be almost or wholly lost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z At high tide they worked equally energetically in building a wooden house on a bit of tableland, that was easy of access, and could not be reached by a tide, however high. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z But leave it behind and journey seaward over the rolling tableland. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Range.—Mountainous portions of the Mexican tableland north to southern Arizona. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z He was walking on a bleak high tableland among the stars, from which he looked down, and saw the world and all that was therein as a very little thing. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z In the vast tablelands of Colorado and other western regions of the United States an impressive picture is presented of the results of mere subaerial erosion on undisturbed and nearly level strata. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z We aimed to rise to a small tableland from which I might make a study of the surroundings. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z On one side there is a way by which an active man may reach the summit, where he finds a flat tableland of moderate extent. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z Range.—Mexican boundary region of Texas and New Mexico south over the Mexico tableland to Oaxaca. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z On the other hand, the rapid healing of flesh and muscle on the lofty tablelands of the Transvaal during the Boer War was almost marvellous. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z Most of the great tablelands of the globe are platforms of little-disturbed strata which have been upraised bodily to a considerable elevation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Following these, we moved along a steep slope to the tableland above at an altitude of about one thousand feet. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Instead of the whole or most part of the triangular tableland of the top, the force occupied merely a cramped position on the extreme point. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z United States, from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains west to the Pacific; breeds from the southern end of the Mexican tableland north to British Columbia; winters from Oregon and southern Colorado southward. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z Only those who have passed from the tableland of life can recollect the passion for speculation in railways that took possession of the public in 1845 and the two or three following years. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Examples of ancient and much decayed tablelands formed by the denudation of much disturbed rocks are furnished by the Highlands of Scotland and of Norway. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The coast line is about two thousand feet high, evidently the remains of an old tableland which extends a considerable distance northward. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The tableland was not entirely flat; it had many depressions, and jagged rocks stood up on all sides around the comparatively clear space on which the airship rested. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z When they finally topped the hill and came out upon the tableland on which the house and the main buildings of Sunrise Farm stood, they received a welcome indeed. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z It is a rich agricultural town, consisting chiefly of prairie, the whole forming a tableland, terminating westward on the precipitous bluffs of the St. Croix. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z But ranges of hills almost mountainous in their bulk may be formed by the gradual erosion of valleys out of a mass of original high ground, such as a high plateau or tableland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z There is plenty of water there, as elsewhere on the tableland. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The Ile des Pins, a tableland, its centre perfectly desolate, is bounded by fertile plains, but in the hands of the Marist monks, who exploit the labour of the natives. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z There are two rivers heading near the same point, in the marshes and the highest tableland of the Cascade Mountains. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z On the east of the Meuse the heights rise to a tableland severed by wooded ravines and overlooking the plain of the Woevre. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z On the tableland of Nubian sandstone between Khartoum and Elephantine the river forms two great loops, and is intercepted by shallows or cataracts, of which there are six in all. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z This is at least how I understand the peopling of a great part of the eastern hemisphere by an original nucleus of Mongolic type first differentiated from a pleistocene precursor on the Tibetan tableland. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He pointed through the rain to the red roofs of Melmerbridge, on the edge of the tableland below. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z But, though thus high in air, the Forest of Dean does not possess the usual characteristics of what are termed plateaux, or elevated tablelands. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The line of French trenches embraced all this tableland and a good deal of the plain beyond. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z They stood at the edge of the great Welsh tableland. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z Similarly the sub-tropical Asiatic peninsulas, the bleak Tibetan tableland, the Pamir, and arid Mongolian steppes are found mainly in possession of somewhat stationary communities, which present every stage between sheer savagery and civilisation. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The leading figure issued a silent order by pointing upward, whereupon a man climbed the trail, disappeared in the chasm, and reappeared upon the shelf which marked the tableland. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z He began explaining the mechanism, and halted on the highest point of a far-flung tableland to lift the bonnet and show the delighted boy the operations of the Otto cycle. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z The many villages on the tableland were in the hands of German outposts, and the main body lay on the eastern bank of the river, which here flows in a deep channel. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z And on each side of this tableland the hills rise again, north and south, much higher to the north than to the south. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z Our native army also contains fine fighting men from the lofty mountainous country on the north-west frontier of India, and from the rugged tableland of Beluchistan. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z There was one fissure leading up from the shelving beach to the higher tableland. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z As she emerged from the gorge, she gained a high tableland, over which the wind swept unimpeded. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z He led the way to the southern tip of the plateau; no great distance—from edge to edge the tableland was no more than three hundred yards across. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The pebbles of the basal conglomerates are derived chiefly from the underlying platform of greywackes and shales and from the Radiolarian cherts and volcanic rocks in the tableland to the south. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z On the north lies a tableland which extends for fifty miles to the neighbourhood of Louvain. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z Dawn mantled the sky above the dark cliff's edge; a plume of flamingo red shot to the zenith, and the sun was peering over the Siberian tableland. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The camp was in the head of a pocket which led from a tableland to the Republican river. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z This district is of a peculiar geological structure, consisting of a moderately elevated tableland, deeply carved at the edges by valleys and richly wooded except at the southern extremity. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Geology.—The southern portion of the county, embracing the Moorfoot Hills and a large part of the catchment basin of the Gala Water, lies within the Silurian tableland of the south of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The tableland to the north is flat, and is covered with fields of beetroot and cereals. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z Men in ragged guise were descending the trail that led from the Siberian tableland to the land-locked harbour wherein lay the Pole Star. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z This consisted of land adjoining the Elkhorn river, then ascending a high bluff, a tableland ideal for the location of the town. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The county slopes very gradually from the mountainous districts in the north down to the sea, lofty hills alternating in parts with stretches of tableland or rich fertile holms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z His vertebrae stood up like a minor chain of Andes, extending from his mangy neck to the tableland dominating the cataract-like tail of scrubby hair. A Little World We want to get through the first ridge, and on to the rich tablelands, or among the beautiful valleys.” Real Gold A Story of Adventure The intervals are filled with lower ranges, and numerous transverse ranges connect the principal ones and run from them to the coast, forming elevated tablelands and enclosed valleys. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide These were the Hart ranch at the crossing of Snake creek, Mayfield's, and later the Hughes ranch at the crossing of the Niobrara, and Halfway Hollow, on the high tableland between. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z The Upper Old Red Sandstone forms a narrow strip on the south side of the Silurian tableland, resting unconformably on the Silurian rocks and passing upwards into the Carboniferous formation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Upon a barren, wide-stretching tableland stood a cluster of adobe huts. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch The sun temperature is high on these barren tablelands, but the nights are cool and refreshing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Afghanistan consists chiefly of lofty, bare, uninhabited tablelands, sandy barren plains, ranges of snow-covered mountains, offsets of the Hindu Kush or the Him�laya, and deep ravines and valleys. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide We got three, and as we did not find any more, we took the tableland for the Platte. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Both the Indians and the infantry were in position and advanced on the hostile camp, which, situated as it was on this tableland covered with canebrake and boulders, formed an ideal position for Indian defense. The Career of Leonard Wood Both of these ranges belong to that border of mountains which bounds the great tableland of Asia Minor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It stands on a tableland in the high mountainous interior of Upolu and appears to be not altogether easy of access. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II After going over this tableland for about twelve miles, we again came down to the river, through a steep and sandy ravine. Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850 We had proven that farming on the tablelands could be made a success, railroads had been built, and towns and villages had sprung up like mushrooms. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Towards the east they increase in height, and form a broad tableland, at places 2000 ft. above sea-level. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" In the heart of Tibet we had found Arcadia—not a detached oasis, but a continuous strip of verdure, where the Tsangpo cleaves the bleak hills and desert tablelands from west to east. The Unveiling of Lhasa The tableland is more rolling and the mountains are farther away. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Some three miles before we stopped we left the river and ascended the tableland, passing over innumerable little knobs, upon which is scattered a little cedar and pine. Journal of a Trip to California Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850 It was on a bleak tableland nine thousand feet above the sea. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The island, though completely within the influence of oceanic evaporation, and possessing an elevated tableland of considerable extent, does not boast of any rivers of great volume. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The difficulty of the passes, the severity of the climate, the sterility of the mountains and tablelands, make the interior of the country almost inaccessible to an invading army. The Unveiling of Lhasa Fine masses of rock and carved tableland rose on the horizon as we drove along. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway The road, after winding uphill for several miles between woods and high banks, led at last on to the moors, where there was a kind of tableland flanked on two sides by chains of mountains. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story That part of the inner tableland of South Africa which is in the colony has an average elevation of 3000 ft., being higher in the eastern than in the western districts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Tens of thousands of our noblest and best lie buried in these valleys or on the tableland of Peronne, situated between the insignificant rivers that have within the past few months earned a world-wide notoriety. The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire On a tableland overlooking all the city stands the United States garrison of infantry and artillery. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel As we approached Wamsutter a wonderful great tableland lay to the right of us, very high and with an immense level top. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Rarely on the tableland of Equatorial Africa do we see the scrub and thorn trees of South Africa. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal This done the traveller finds himself on another tableland—the Great Karroo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" It was not the breeze—now sweeping the tableland in fitful puffs. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising Westward of the mountains, an elevated prairie or tableland extended for five hundred miles further, broken here and there into crevasses and cañons, the beds of mighty rivers. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Sometimes small tablelands stood up boldly before us, sometimes cone-shaped pieces of plateau, like small volcanoes, appeared in long rows beyond us. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway These curious hill-heaps of rock are remnants of the primeval tableland that rose above the present face of the country from 100 to 300 feet. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal The tableland is broken by the Orange river, which traverses its whole length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The Drakensberg are the eastern part of the rampart which forms the edge of the inner tableland of South Africa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" These strips are, from west to east: the lowland plain, the highlands, the Jordan valley, and the tablelands east of the Jordan. The Bible Story So we turned our backs on the browns, yellows, and slate colors, the pinks and the lavenders of the lonely tableland country and struck north along a very fair road. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway It is the northern portion of the Great South African tableland, and its highest elevations run north-east and south-west, varying from 4000 to nearly 6000 feet above the sea. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal A conspicuous feature of the chain, as of the adjacent tableland, is the number of its parameras, isolated plateaus shut in by lofty mountains or even by precipitous walls of rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The Jornada is a high desert of tableland, east of the Rio Grande. Stepsons of Light The Danubian plateau, also called a plain or a tableland, extends from the Yugoslav border to the Black Sea. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Shortly before noon they scaled the last few yards to a great tableland among the peaks. Warrior of the Dawn Tympanic bulla as large as foramen magnum; hind foot less than 74; geographic range limited to southern edge of Mexican tableland at high elevationsRomerolagus diazi, p. A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha Now, a Mess has very little indeed of this requisite; on the contrary, its great stronghold is the fact that it offers an easy tableland for all capacities. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Northward and westward were the mountain peaks of Ach�a and the high tablelands of Arcadia; southward, the rugged mountain chain of Messene; westward, the Ionian sea. Greek Women The broad Danubian tableland that lies north of these mountains has a continental climate, except for a narrow strip along the Black Sea coast. Area Handbook for Bulgaria By noon of the next day Tharn was drawing himself up to the edge of the tableland at almost the same spot from whence Dylara had her first glimpse of Sephar. Warrior of the Dawn This is a blockhouse raised by some charitable person on the edge of the tableland; a very few yards beyond, the path dips suddenly on its course to the Serebpiqui river, 6000 feet below. The Woodlands Orchids Fern and heath, clumps of gorse and misshapen rocks, diversified the barren surface on every side, and I now seemed to have gained the summit, a vast tableland spreading away for miles. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands This tableland, and particularly the ravine of the Miosson, nourishes a number of woods. Poitiers It forms a hilly tableland elevated in the east and north, and intersected by numerous fertile river valleys, trending for the most part to the south and south-west. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Here they stood at the edge of a great tableland, clothed with primeval forest from which, in the distance, loomed four low mountain peaks. Warrior of the Dawn At that time all the white and coloured population was settled on the tableland, excepting a few individuals or families who yearly wandered downwards to squat along the slope. The Woodlands Orchids We were soon in their miserable harbor; and, it being low water, we were compelled to leave our boat, and wade to the tableland through the mud. A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island The valley through which the river descends is sheltered from the cold tablelands lying northward by the Sierra More�a chain. Cathedrals of Spain It seemed as if a great tableland extended now for some distance on every side, over which the Emperor took his way, as though accustomed to the ground. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The road may be traced leading to the south end of this tableland, being identical with the modern road to Lunghezza for the middle part of its course 686 only. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The Battas, inhabiting a high tableland beyond the mountains, crept through the defile, ravaged, burnt, massacred, and trooped back, carrying their prisoners away for leisurely consumption. The Woodlands Orchids She struck on a high plateau, grinding into the pumice, rolling with macabre abandon across the face of the high tableland. The Peacemaker It consists mainly of tableland gashed by streams that have cut their way down in deep narrow gulches with precipitous sides. Our Southern Highlanders It consists of high tablelands, lifted up considerably above the level of Northern China, and is approached only through rugged mountain passes. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports Soon the valley widened, the road took longer sweeps to round each frowning buttress, and at last emerged, with a quality of inanimate breathlessness, on to the bleak and desolate tableland of the Mendips. Cynthia's Chauffeur Pfeiffer nearly crossed the tableland unmolested, though the savages were not friendly; but, as she says, they regarded her as a witch. The Woodlands Orchids This vast country is separated from the rest of continental Asia by lofty tablelands and rugged mountain ranges, which determine the general course—west to east—of its principal rivers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The high tableland of the Balaghat lies for the most part upon the great basaltic formation which stretches across the Satpuras as far east as Jubbulpore. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Early the next morning we began to ascend a little; and so came to a rocky tableland with palms, and beyond it another ridge of hills. Gold On the mound’s commodious summit of tableland there was the Plaza de la Cruz, also the Church de la Cruz, and an old Franciscan hive, called the monastery de la Cruz. The Missourian He had a hope that upon the dry tableland Nell would be safeguarded against the fever, and for these reasons he willingly and zealously entered into the preparation for the journey. In Desert and Wilderness On the north and west the Mongolian and Tibetan tablelands present towards China steep escarpments across which are very few passes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" At the foot of the steep slopes, extends a long, narrow tableland of forest bordering directly upon the river; this is interspersed with springs of fresh water that burst from the hillsides. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Slipping out over the edge of that precipitous tableland, they tilted her rudders and dove to the abysm below. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 They had heard hoofbeats, sharp and dry on the high tableland. The Missourian Its castle was built on a tongue of land flanked by two deep ravines, and behind this the town grew up in a semicircle on a stretch of bare and exposed tableland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" From the Tibetan and Mongolian tablelands project mountain ranges which, ramifying over the western region, enclose elevated level tracts and lower basins and valleys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" From the high tableland of Asia, it was held, the superior races came who were to rule nearly the whole of Europe, while another migration descended towards Persia and the plains of India. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems The train passed the cañon head, and one day, after considerable aimless wandering, it turned westward to cross a succession of wide tablelands where feed was good and water still plentiful. When the West Was Young It is the highest capital in Europe, being almost half a mile above sea level in the center of the great mesa or tableland of Castile. Getting to know Spain On then with the dawn to desolate cattle ranches, the tablelands of Mexico, the level plains of Illinois and Michigan. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences Some eighteen miles from Lisbon, several sharp granite peaks rise high above an undulating tableland. Portuguese Architecture He heard the roar of tossing trees far below and his brain reproduced an accurate picture of the gulch that pierced the high tableland. Partners of the Out-Trail It was another good day, and they travelled fast, over a rolling tableland on which the snow smoothed out the inequalities among the rocks. Blake's Burden It had come across the great tableland behind the Musgrave Ranges, had been brought to a narrow point down one of the gorges in the mountains, and had hurled itself at the three defenceless men. In the Musgrave Ranges Stories drifted in nowadays of the great future of the more fertile tablelands to the west, but Caleb Parish had been stationed here and had not been relieved. The Roof Tree Westward this tableland slopes gradually and imperceptibly to sea level; to the south it reaches the Atlantic in the series of terraces and escarpments already described. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government At one side of the tableland there was a break in its surface and a bench of some dozen acres lay perhaps twenty feet below our retreat. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines In the afternoon they reached a tableland where travelling was slightly easier, but when they camped without a fire among the rocks one of Harding's feet was bleeding and he was very weary. Blake's Burden During the forenoon the train had rolled across the mesa or tableland below Pueblo. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army Under these wise and benevolent rulers the community grew and spread, absorbing into itself the neighbouring tribes, and overrunning the whole tableland. The Red True Story Book In the clear atmosphere of the tableland it was easy to see the blue mountains in the distance beyond the temples, houses, and gardens which stood on either side of it. The True Story Book During a lull in the proceedings we climbed the narrow, steep and slippery path up to the tableland in order to get an idea of the country behind the hills. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific At each end the tableland is rent by gorges which deepen, amidst stupendous precipices, to the channel of the Draband or "Gat" on the north, and of the Dhana on the south. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Geology.—The greater portion of the hilly region in the south of the county forms part of the Silurian tableland of the south of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The dank, green smell hung in their nostrils after they had left the ravine for a fertile tableland. Mountain Blood A Novel Stern necessity would wait no longer on Napoleon's bravado; in a few days his troops withdrew to the tableland behind the river Passarge. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) There are level lands at the mouth of the Sarrakatta River and on the tablelands. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific He only established his new kingdom after a severe conflict between the Scythian and Aryan races, which had hitherto shared the possession of the tablelands of Media. Ancient States and Empires For the greater part of its circumference, it is bounded by a continuous range of mountains or highlands, nowhere rising to a great height, and for long distances, consisting of plateaus or tablelands. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 The average height of this desolate tableland—some 15,000 feet above sea-level—is higher than the highest mountains of Europe. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Finding their position turned the Austrians took up their stand on the tableland of Wagram. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Behind the flat, stony shore the forest-covered hills rose in a steep cliff to a tableland about 100 mètres high. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific It has been tested in several parts of the State, and it is probable that it will be found to thrive over a considerable area of the coastal and coastal tablelands districts. Fruits of Queensland All the vast timbered slopes and tablelands of the Cumberlands were one golden dapple, as yet differentiated by darker greens and heavier shadows only where some group of pine or cedar stood. Judith of the Cumberlands This strange country, cold and barren, lies on a high tableland in the heart of Asia. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet The troops slowly proceeded along a low tableland which terminated in a cliff. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 The country had changed somewhat; mighty banks of coral formed high tablelands that fell vertically down to the sea, and the living reef stretched seaward under the water. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific When grown on the tablelands, this early blossoming is a disadvantage, as the blossoms are liable to be injured by frost, but in these districts peaches of Persian origin can be grown instead. Fruits of Queensland Asia Minor is a high tableland, in shape like the sole of a boot turned upside down, with the highlands of Armenia representing the heel. World's War Events, Vol. II He was tired and damp with perspiration when he reached the top and met an icy wind that swept across a tableland. Prescott of Saskatchewan Here the tableland between them and the river was covered with straggling bush, and though the undergrowth was thin they could see nothing but the long rows of shadowy trunks. The Long Portage These tablelands were intersected by flat valleys, in the centre of which rose steep hills, like huge bastions dominating the country round. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The coastal tablelands and the more Western Downs grow it well, and the trees, when planted on soil of a rich friable nature, grow to a large size and bear heavily. Fruits of Queensland Once on the beautiful tableland with its gorgeous views of hill and dale, ocean and distant mountain, the train sped onwards at a rate almost alarming to us used to the slower methods of Europe. A Queen's Error In the coastal districts of New South Wales and throughout a vast extent of the northern and central tableland districts dairy farming is a profitable and constantly-expanding industry. Australia, The Dairy Country We ought to have explored the gulch and seen how it was connected with the tableland yonder. The Peril Finders Narrow paths, bordered with impenetrable bush, led us from the beach across coral boulders up to the plantations on top of the tableland. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The more northern end of this tableland country has a much better rainfall—some 40 inches per annum—and frosts, though they occur at times, are not common. Fruits of Queensland When once we step down from that tall and splintered peak of pure insanity we step on to a tableland where one man is not so widely different from another. Eugenics and Other Evils In the tableland districts, where the rainfall averages 30 in. per annum, dairy farming has taken firm hold. Australia, The Dairy Country “Seems to me that it’s just one great fault in a bit of tableland.” The Peril Finders Before them lay a tableland of many acres thickly covered with trees. Stubble A handsome evergreen tree, that can be grown in the more Southerly coast districts, in the foothills of the coast range, and on the coast tablelands. Fruits of Queensland At times the naked man was a broad, flat monster upon that shimmering tableland. The Marooner Considerable portions of the northern tablelands, and parts of Central Queensland, are also suitable for dairying, and a beginning has already been made in these localities. Australia, The Dairy Country The centre of Brazil is occupied by a high tableland, crossed by a series of serras, mostly running north and south. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Above the tableland appeared a silvery cloud, showing the whereabouts of the fearful crater of Kilauea, which it was the intention of the two commanders to visit on the following morning. The Three Commanders This fruit does well in parts of our coastal tableland country, though its habit of blossoming too early in the season renders it very liable to injury from late frosts. Fruits of Queensland The General and his Staff were standing on a kind of grassy tableland on the edge of a wood. 1914 When high in the air the frog wriggled so frantically that he got loose and fell down—down—down into a small hidden pool on the tableland of the Yips. The Lost Princess of Oz Rising from the general level of the tableland, this hillock is in itself a kind of natural citadel. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) One day, dropping suddenly down off the tableland into a draw, I came squarely upon a shack. Land of the Burnt Thigh It extended west practically as far the Rio Grande river, and embraced a tract of mountains and high tableland nearly two hundred miles square. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado On this tableland the signallers of revolution must hoist the red flag of the army of liberation. The New World of Islam There was another pool on the tableland, which was not enchanted but contained good clear water and was located close to the dwellings. The Lost Princess of Oz In the east, above the dusky rim of the fir woods on the edge of the high-lying tableland, stretched a blinding blaze of rose-saffron, shading through amber into pale primrose colour above. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance A few narrow, crooked creeks cut their way through the great tableland of prairie. Land of the Burnt Thigh There is nowhere any tableland, as at the Cape or in Colorado, with horizontal strata of rock cut down by water into valleys or cañons. Birds of the Indian Hills "Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed as she stood in Alvina's bedroom, and looked at the enormous furniture, the lofty tableland of the bed. The Lost Girl Always, in the realm of the Spirit, the dogged “nevertheless” will lead to the “shining tableland to which our God Himself is moon and sun.” My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year They now opposed the Greeks with all their might, and it took seven days of continuous fighting to reach the valley which lay between them and the high tableland of Armenia. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The evening, in which the air cooled first in the draws, then lifted softly to the tableland, cooling the body, quenching the thirst as one breathed it deeply. Land of the Burnt Thigh On the other side of the river, the ground at once rose suddenly and precipitously to the height of three or four hundred feet, with tableland at the top. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign It was hard to tear myself away from Zanzibar, but at last I went on southward and struck up into the wilder country of the central tableland. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales The highest tablelands are used for cane-planting, which imperatively requires a good system of drainage. The Philippine Islands But Bruce was nearing his goal, and at last he stood at the top of the great Abyssinian tableland. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole There is such silence up here on the tableland at mid-day—only a light soughing of the soft, hot wind, otherwise not even the cheep of a lizard. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The Patriot army was spread across the country for many miles, our post being on a high tableland four leagues from Challuanca. At the Point of the Sword It has been briefly described as 'a very quiet street of grey stone cottages and whitewashed houses on a high and windy tableland.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts It completely surrounded, but never could mount the tableland. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Then came the long and tedious ascent of the Cordilleras leading to the tableland of Mexico. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Behind these terraces and slopes lies the great tableland described in a preceding chapter. Impressions of South Africa We were drawn up on a nearly square tableland known as the Plain of Ayacucho, a league in circumference, and flanked right and left by rugged ravines. At the Point of the Sword Topping that high tableland, Beacon Hargate is familiar with wild weather at the proper seasons, and by dint of use takes very little notice of it. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea The soil of the plains and the tableland is generally good, and 70 per cent of it is suitable for cultivation. Bulgaria I was now on a small flat tableland. In the Forbidden Land Behind the Quathlamba Range the country spreads out to the north and west in a vast tableland, sometimes flat, sometimes undulating, sometimes intersected by ridges of rocky hills. Impressions of South Africa By our next return to the trenches autumn was already merging into early winter in this chilly tableland, with sharp night frosts and thick white mists. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) Murray's hunt was a short one, for that grassy tableland, with its cool streams and its shady trees, seemed to be a favorite pasture-ground for the mountain-deer. The Talking Leaves An Indian Story From that point they searched the intervening wooded area, and caught sight of a still higher tableland miles beyond. The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands The altitude was 18,960 feet, and we were surprised to find four lakes of considerable size close to one another on this high tableland. In the Forbidden Land Though I call it a tableland, it is by no means flat, for several long, though not lofty, ranges of hills, mostly running east and west, intersect it. Impressions of South Africa The enemy was ensconced in his Hindenburg Line, which took advantage of every undulation in the bare tableland. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) When we reached the tableland we had to go a long way round to avoid a good many little wadis which were all quite steep, before we reached the water. Southern Arabia When going from Sao Paulo up across the tablelands to Rio Janeiro, I passed through a little poverty-stricken Indian village. Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come At the point where the Luway joins the other three rivers there is a direct way to the summit of the tableland, along which it continues across the Himahlyas by the Luway Pass. In the Forbidden Land In the translucent atmosphere of the tableland it looked scarce a mile. The Lone Ranche The boys had often heard hunters speak of this tableland, and they recognised its features at a glance. The Boy Hunters At the edge of the tableland are some little shelters used by hunters to shoot gazelle, which come down the gullies that to us appeared, inaccessible. Southern Arabia However, once arrived at the summit, the two had the whole tableland exposed to their view. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes We altered our course from N. to N.E., rising to 16,600 feet, and leaving the high tableland to the west. In the Forbidden Land The next move was to the summit of the flat tableland, which was of course easily reached by the Flying Fish. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure The rich tropical regions of both the eastern and western slopes of the tableland of Anahuac thus paid tribute to the Aztecs, as well as the boundless resources of the south. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Of all the crowd, he and Conn watched the two steel giants strip away the tableland with apprehension instead of hope. The Cosmic Computer As the brothers proceeded across the tableland, they also saw numbers of a small bird, about the size of a bantam, called by young Glass the “island hen.” Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes For centuries the Inca people had lived in undisturbed repose in their beautiful valleys and on their sunlit tablelands between the mountain ranges—or cordilleras, as they are called—which compose the Andes. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The English line goes up the big green hill, in trenches and saps of reddish clay, to the plateau or tableland at the top. The Old Front Line The tableland is bounded both on the east and the west by ranges of mountains, known as the Eastern Sierra Madre and the Western Sierra Madre respectively. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The inclination of the ground was so slight as to give no indication whether they had reached the summit of the tableland, or were still ascending to a higher level. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Why, it is the very thing I have been longing to do since we went up the cliffs and saw the beach there from the tableland! Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes And thus we went up and down till we were up at length on the level Armenian tableland. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The road dips here, but soon rises again, and so, by a flat tableland, to the large village of Hébuterne. The Old Front Line These mountains close in towards the south, enclosing the tableland in a tapering form, and the Valley of Mexico which forms its extremity. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Regardless of where he went the Major crossed the tableland and started down the incline of the slope. Terry A Tale of the Hill People The goats were secreted in a thicket of buckthorn trees and tussock-grass, close to where the tableland sloped to the beach at its western extremity. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes Elevated tablelands, gently sloping to the north-west, and intersected by narrow, shallow valleys, stretched away from the level of the saddle. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories Once out of the stream bed the party was to encounter a vast tableland of grazing ground that seemed bounded by hills and peaks on all sides—the Tranquil Meadows. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story The tableland is, however, intersected by various lesser ranges of hills, and is not by any means a flat, unbroken expanse. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The huge monolith rose some eight hundred feet above the tableland on which the village was built. Terry A Tale of the Hill People “Yes; don’t you remember that young Glass said there was a flock of goats on the tableland above the cliff?” Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes It consists for the most part of rolling tablelands, broken by low, forest-covered ridges and dotted here and there by a few gigantic peaks. Negritos of Zambales The greater part of the population inhabits the region of the chestnut trees, in villages scattered over the mountain slopes, valleys and tablelands. Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads This third climatic zone, embracing parts of the tableland, is capable of producing all the varieties of wheat, and does actually produce some, and the cultivation of this cereal is being extended. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development From the head of the slope the path crossed a kind of tableland, and they could easily keep their guide in sight for a long distance. Jack Haydon's Quest He soon gained the tableland, returning anon with a well-grown kid which Fritz had told him to shoot, so that they might take it home with them. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes By far the largest number of pueblos, however, built among the southwest tablelands, if occupied for any length of time, must have been subject to irregular enlargement. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 This is the more common form, although isolated mesas, bits of tableland completely engirdled by cliffs, are but little less common. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Scantily clad, the peon suffers from the brusque change from torrid day to bitterly cold night which the climate of the great tableland produces. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development It occupies a central position on the tableland between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers, is 4469 ft. above the sea and 1362 m. north-east of Cape Town by rail. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" This reservation is a part of the great tableland of southeastern Arizona, being a succession of mountains and high, park-like mesas, broken here and there with valleys and watered by limpid streams. The North American Indian For these fattened cows roam freely over the vast tableland. Tablets of the Divine Plan And see; on the other side of the cleft there is a little tableland which juts out, and the road would wind over that, where carriages would once more be seen from the hotel porch. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story Great plains and plantations of maguey exist upon the tableland for the making of pulque, Hidalgo alone having 129 haciendas devoted to this industry. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Through an open tableland, well grassed and sparsely wooded, we came at length to the cleft in the hills from which is obtained the first view of the river valley. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Over the western edge of this tableland of green and yellow and silver the mountains cast a shadow of purple and the sun filtered slanting rays through the forest slopes on the north and east. Sergeant York And His People Westward, where desert merges into sky, are high tablelands, and flat-topped mountains with carved sides, desert architecture, such as might have suggested Egyptian temples and colossal sphinxes. The Golden Silence They climbed with unspoken consent, going clear to the top, where they huddled together on a four-foot tableland. Star Hunter The city of Durango, one of the foremost of the fine Spanish-built cities of the Mexican tableland, has a population of somewhat more than 30,000 inhabitants. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Next day we were astir early and soon after daylight we came suddenly to the brow of the tableland overlooking the valley of Tongchuan. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Imagine his surprise on descending from the tableland to enter a little valley radiant with gorgeous flowers and alive with murmuring bees, where musk oxen were lazily browsing. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Up this hill-side they toiled; and then found themselves on a ridge of tableland, stretching back for some distance along the edge of a little valley or bottom of perfectly flat smooth pasture-ground. Queechy, Volume I The Liberals were in for five years, and Disraeli, in opposition, found a sort of tableland stretch in front of him after so much arduous climbing. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Its colossal crest towers upwards from the tableland, riveting the attention of the traveller from all points of the compass by its majesty. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Leaving the valley we ascended the red incline to an open tableland, where the soil is arid, and yields but a reluctant and scanty harvest. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Between the succeeding tablelands lay gumbo flats where the saturated clay hung to the feet of our horses like so much glue, or opened under hoof-pressure and swallowed them to the knees. Raw Gold A Novel Besides, the Ridge is not like the roof of a house, but a most illusive series of irregular knolls with small plateaus or valleys between, a sort of miniature broken tableland. My Second Year of the War Day after day we fought our way northward over the high Polar tableland. South with Scott The great estates which form his hacienda lie in one or the other part of the country, whether upon the great tableland or in the tropical regions which surround it. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development They were at the top of a tableland, and before them spread the Common, a brown sea of last year's heather and bilberry, with gorse bushes flaming here and there like golden fires. The Luckiest Girl in the School The enemy were entrenched on a series of high, boulder-strewn tablelands, which offered almost perfect cover. Sir John French An Authentic Biography The peaks cluster in two groups, the eastern or White Mountain group proper, and the Franconia group, separated from each other by a tableland varying from ten to twenty miles in breadth. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 The region lying on the S.E. of this range is a vast tableland, devoid of prominent objects, rising gradually towards the mountains, which shelve rapidly down to an equally barren expanse on the N.W. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features It led me by steep and devious ways to the tablelands where the mists that hung over intelligence are no more. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 On the shores of the river and its streams lie green levels; from these the bluffs rise steeply for some one or two hundred feet to tablelands of great fertility. The Mormon Prophet Between these tablelands and French's force lay a wide and partly scrubless stretch of veldt. Sir John French An Authentic Biography The sheepfolds of Etterick lie in a little fold of glen some two miles from the dwelling, where the heathy tableland, known all over the glen as "The Muirs," relieves the monotony of precipitous hills. The Half-Hearted On the N., the edge of a tableland intersected by a number of valleys define its limits, and on the E. a border forming also the W. side of Babbage. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features No one could imagine what that vast, polished tableland could serve for until they watched the editor at work. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I There opposite them on the tableland of the other hill lay the metropolis! I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross Just before reaching the head of the bay, where the road made a sharp turn and began to ascend to the tableland, it passed what was called the bend meadow. Hills of the Shatemuc A thought grew in his brain, and a sudden clearness in the air translated it into action; for in the hazy distance across the tableland he saw the walls of Forza fort. The Half-Hearted By utilizing these, now pulling, now boosting each other, they finally emerged on a flat, smooth tableland, of which fissures had made a complete island. The Enchanted Canyon On the southern side lie the Heights of Champagne, practically a tableland. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The lower classes must be lifted to the tableland of a better life, where they can breathe the pure air of intelligence and morality, or they will pollute the whole body politic. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures The one as silently as the other; till the bay was left behind and they came to the point where the road began to go up to the tableland. Hills of the Shatemuc Half-way between the two is that long Nazri valley, and at the top is a tableland strewn with boulders where you shoot mountain sheep. The Half-Hearted It was now the time of the yearly gathering of bilberries on the hills; and tribes of women and children ascended to the tableland from all the villages round. Fern's Hollow From the river this tableland looks like a series of ridges approaching the valley at an angle. Adventures of a Despatch Rider All ores and limestone were delivered on a tableland of the same height, and adjacent to a series of several enormous blast-furnaces. The Harris-Ingram Experiment They drove on fast, till the bottom of the bay was left and they descended from the tableland, by Sam Doolittle's, to the road which skirted the south side of Shahweetah. Hills of the Shatemuc But on the little tableland the moon was shining clearly. The Half-Hearted Except this one man, the whole tableland was deserted; and so silent was it that the rustle of his own feet through the fading ferns sounded like other footsteps following him closely. Fern's Hollow We had been climbing higher into the mountains all day and had reached a level tableland where the grass was luxuriant and there was plenty of wood and water. Letters of a Woman Homesteader Two mountain streams have so joined as to form a peninsula of tableland which is well shaded by cotton-wood trees. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself The slopes of the tableland were grassed with spinifex, which is almost worthless. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills In an hour or two he came to the top of the slope and the beginning of the second tableland. The Half-Hearted How refreshing and strengthening it was upon the tableland that spring afternoon! Fern's Hollow Eastward the tableland slopes gradually, and melts into the sands of Arabia. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. For 10 1/2 miles to the northward of Moresby's Flat-topped Range are some remarkable detached ranges of tableland, from 500 to 600 feet high, at the northern extreme of which are the Menai Hills. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 Camp 8, situated in a ravine from an adjoining tableland. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The place was the edge of a little tableland where in a hollow among rocks lay a collection of mud-walled huts. The Half-Hearted It was no child's play, in those days, to cross Europe afoot.The weird woodland, sombre and illimitable, covered hill and vale, tableland and mountain-peak. The First Christmas Tree A Story of the Forest After climbing these cliffs you arrive at a flat tableland which forms the general level of the surface. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 We fell in with a native path which wound up through a thick scrub in pleasing sinuosities, and emerged upon a tableland similar to the one we had traversed this morning. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 At 1.18 made one mile south by east, to a plain with tableland of the richest soil, and with grasses of the most fattening nature, but which at this time are old and dry. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills Suddenly a long, narrow black cleft in the farther tableland caught his eye. The Half-Hearted The cape itself is a bluff point of an indifferent height with a flat tableland at top. A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland Having now established ourselves upon this narrow elevated tableland the next thing was to descend on the other side. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 They came out upon the tablelands above Bear Valley. The Desert Valley I should mention that this tableland is not only intersected by ranges, but everywhere studded with isolated hills rising suddenly out of basins or valleys. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Upon the delightful tablelands that he saw there, fragrant with perfumes of diverse kinds, birds of the foremost species were always heard to pour forth their melodies. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Oft have I seen thy tablelands and bowers, thy springs and brooks, and the sacred shrines on thy breast. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 This river ran through a deep and narrow valley, descending with a nearly regular slope from a tableland of sandstone, in which it took its rise about seven miles inland. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 From the edge of the tableland he saw Evans down below. The Desert Valley I have described in a former Despatch, that rich pastoral District of the tableland which is known as the "Darling Downs." A Source Book of Australian History After dipping into several depressions and surmounting several yokes, we suddenly overtopped the last ridge and looked down upon a tableland, which bore, like a tray of tea-things, the white buildings of a little village. Tell England A Study in a Generation Most of Labrador is a rocky tableland, still rising from the depths, with some old beaches as much as 1,500 feet above the present level of the sea. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 Warned by this misfortune we managed to make another turn in the path, by which this awkward rock was avoided, and the remainder of the horses, with their loads, reached the tableland in safety. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 Here again was a level space, a wide tableland, offering less of the desert menace and hostility and something more of charm and the promise of comfort. The Desert Valley No similar noise had ever before been heard on the elevated tableland of Mexico, nor has this terrific phenomenon since occurred there. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 The birds, which seemed to revel in the excitements of war, soared and swept over the devastated tableland. Tell England A Study in a Generation What was known as the Peak of Derbyshire we found was not one single rock, as we supposed, but a huge tableland with rising heights here and there. From John O'Groats to Land's End On a further examination I found that a precisely similar series of operations was going on throughout the whole amphitheatre of cliffs which bounded the tableland we had been traversing during the morning. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 In the afternoon they reached a tableland where traveling was slightly easier; but when they camped without a fire among the rocks, one of Harding's feet was bleeding, and he was very weary. The Intriguers There was no breadfruit, for it will live only where man is there to tend it, and in all the extent of the tableland there was no human being or sign of habitation. White Shadows in the South Seas Take your men over the tableland, and wait for me at W Beach. Tell England A Study in a Generation In front, the undulating military road ran straight across the high tableland to the west. Carmen's Messenger Having at length reached the tableland which this valley drained we found ourselves in the midst of a forest, differing widely from anything we had before seen. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 It was another good day, and they traveled fast, over a rolling tableland on which the snow smoothed out the, inequalities among the rocks. The Intriguers It has a tableland fifty yards wide of yellow clay so beaten by thousands of naked feet, so baked by the heat, that it is as hard as a brass shield. The Congo and Coasts of Africa The gig, after climbing a somewhat steep slope, was threading its way through desolate ravines; at last it reached a tableland, where the hollow road skirted an interminable and lofty wall. Abbe Mouret's Transgression At the head of the glen they climbed a long grassy slope and came to a tableland where the peat was torn into great black rifts and piled in hummocks. Carmen's Messenger We thus gradually ascended the second sandstone range, the summit of which was a tableland, at this point about half a mile wide. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 But there is one plateau higher still which, like a tableland, covers the entire summit of the mountain, and that the maturity stage. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Other tablelands may be higher, but this is the one nearest the sun. The Congo and Coasts of Africa Almost hidden in the mist hovering about the coast were a number of vague spots seemingly arranged in a semicircle, the base of which was the green-covered tableland fronting Santiago. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" "They have some bench tablelands and pretty rich alluvial valleys," Foster answered with a smile. Carmen's Messenger In the course of the afternoon however a path had been made, and most of the stores were safely stowed upon an elevated tableland where we had pitched the tents. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 The last is the elevation of the capital, Mercara, the tableland of which, for a stretch of about 26 miles, averages about 3,500 feet. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore In the east the tableland falls away to the basins of the Congo and Zambezi, to the south it merges into a barren sandy desert. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 They ascended cautiously, and from the summit of the short ascent looked out upon an elevated tableland in the midst of the morass. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune The air was cold but still, and bright sunshine shone upon the tableland, which rolled north, rising steadily towards distant snow-streaked hills. Carmen's Messenger After thus performing our ablutions we breakfasted, and then, whilst the stores were being conveyed to the tableland, I started, accompanied by one man, to explore a route for our line of march next day. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 The nearest point to the sea on the eastern side is about 120 miles, and the most southerly extremity of the tableland is 250 miles from the most southerly point of India. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore The ridge really was a narrow, rocky tableland, and beyond it was another higher slope, up which the same trail ran. Vanguards of the Plains As a people, the Persians are of a happy disposition and bright imagination, doubtless produced by the dry, clear air of their high tableland, which relieves from dullness and depression. Persia Revisited He had seen nothing in Canada wilder or more desolate than this bleak tableland. Carmen's Messenger It consisted of an elevated tableland composed of ironstone and granite occasionally traversed by veins of whinstone. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 We travelled chiefly across plains destitute of grass; and from which we had good views of that strangely named hill, never seen by Oxley, and in fact, not a tableland. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Before us the valley narrowed slightly, and on its rim jagged rock cliffs rose through three hundred feet of earthquake-burst, volcanic-tossed confusion to the high tableland beyond. Vanguards of the Plains The latter course would bring us out on high tablelands, but before risking our herds through it, I decided to ride out the country in advance. Reed Anthony, Cowman His view commanded a horizon of two or three miles, for he seemed to be near the center of the tableland. Carmen's Messenger The road, he said, winds round the highest of these hills, reaching at last a tableland half-way between Jerusalem and Jericho, and on the top of it is the inn. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story There were several dry forks of the Cheyenne beyond, but as they had their source in the tablelands of Wyoming, we could not hope for water in their dry bottoms. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days There had never been a human habitation on the tableland. The Man Who Laughs Kabyles, the name given to a division of the Berbers of N. Africa, who occupy the coast and tablelands of Mauritania, and are indigenous to it. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In the foreground stretched declining tablelands, intersected by numberless ravines, and beyond these a lofty line of bluffs marked the edge of the Great Cañon of the Colorado. Overland About two o'clock in the afternoon we saw three clusters of houses on a tableland which juts into a chasm cut by a tributary of the great river. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China The following morning our guide led us for several hours up a gradual ascent to the plateau, till we reached the tableland, when he left us to return to his own camp. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days The child, having gained the tableland, stopped, placed his feet firmly on the frozen ground, and looked about him. The Man Who Laughs Yung-ling, a mountain range running N. and S., which forms the eastern buttress of the tableland of Central Asia. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge They stepped out of it; they were on the rolling surface of the tableland; they were half a mile above the Colorado. Overland The main ridge is an extended tableland, some 25 m. long, and in places 3 m. broad. Somerset After leaving the country tributary to the Solomon River, we crossed a wide tableland for nearly a hundred miles, and with the exception of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, without a landmark worthy of a name. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days It was entering obliquely, by the north-west, the tableland of Portland. The Man Who Laughs N. of the Nerbudda River the country is flat and fertile; S. of it are mountain ranges and tablelands. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Then came cliffs capped by shatters of tableland, and then the long, even, gleaming ledge of the final plateau. Overland They have, however, even on the top a certain picturesqueness, for the undulating tableland is relieved by copses, and diversified by little wooded "bottoms," scooped out by prehistoric torrents. Somerset For the past week we had been traveling over that immense tableland which skirts the arid portion of western Texas. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days We had been riding hard for an hour across a tableland known as Cibollo Mesa, and now for the first time had halted at sighting our destination, yet distant three hours' hard riding. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories He had just landed on a bit of white tableland wantonly carved in the naked cliff. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk High tableland formed the west side of it, and low broken ranges trending east, bounded it in that direction. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea Towering peaks connected sometimes by high tablelands, glittered in the sun as if capped with snow.* Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. We were sweeping across the tablelands adjoining the main divide of the Rocky Mountains like the chinook winds which sweep that majestic range on its western slope. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Now he looked about him, for on this dim tableland he walked with his life in his hands. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 A beautiful northern form especially abundant on the high tableland of the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, where it is said to cover hundreds of acres. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada The site of the oppidum is a little tableland raised above the surrounding soil by a natural embankment. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Stewart, we ascended the cliff, and on gaining the summit, found ourselves on a small piece of tableland partially cleared. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. We are nearing the tableland of the Pamirs. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Hence the tablelands of Thibet, which lie beyond, are the dryest and the most arid region in the world. Modern India Men who know the walls with which the Cotswold tableland is almost entirely enclosed, ride far too close to hounds: thus, the pack and the huntsman not being allowed a chance, sport is often spoiled. A Cotswold Village I therefore left the valley of the Lot, and proceeded to cross the hills and tablelands which separated me from the gorge of its tributary, the Dourdou. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine On the 19th we left Port Western, passing out by keeping an isolated piece of tableland, called Tortoise Head, on the South-East extremity of French Island, open of the North-East point of Grant Island. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. On the right-hand side the eye never tires of the distant horizon of mountains which bounds the tableland of Tibet to the north. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent When high in the air, the frog wriggled so frantically that he got loose and fell down, down, down into a small hidden pool on the tableland of the Yips. The Lost Princess of Oz The wall country of the Cotswold tableland is exactly the reverse of the vale. A Cotswold Village Still climbing, although he paused often from sheer physical weakness, they scaled forest-clad heights until they emerged on a naked mesa or tableland. The Red One It was just open of the south end of some tablelands, and resembled a cupola superimposed upon a large dome. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. Thence from the Pamir tableland extends the mighty range of the Himalaya, where rise the highest summits on the face of the globe. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent There was another pool on the tableland which was not enchanted but contained good, clear water and was located close to the dwellings. The Lost Princess of Oz The country, which has so far been rather hilly, now opens out into a flat tableland. A Cotswold Village The surrounding shores were beautiful with semitropical verdure, while in the distance the country rose from the ocean in hill and tableland, almost uniformly clothed by primeval forest. Tarzan of the Apes There is over the head of this bay a remarkable level-topped hill, called by Captain Cook, Janes' tableland; rendered the more conspicuous from the low nature of the surrounding country. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. It was rather a stiff ascent, but once above the sheer cliffs we found ourselves on a rolling meadow tableland a half-mile broad by, perhaps, a mile and a half in length. Arizona Nights Far up the stream rose the grim hills which hem the mosses and tarns of that tableland, whence flow the greater waters of the countryside. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies You watch him till he drops suddenly from the heavens, to alight in the little valley which lies a short mile away, invisible amid the far-stretching tablelands. A Cotswold Village It is, in short, a huge, high tableland rising up in the centre of the dark continent, much as in southern Africa flat-topped mountains rise from the level of the surrounding veldt. Allan Quatermain All around was a tableland of lush grass with marigolds and arum lilies instead of daisies and buttercups. Prester John On the tableland beyond the Somme valley the sun shone like April. Mr. Standfast I had some fever on me, I think, and I hated this lush yet frigid tableland, where all the winds on earth lay in wait for one's marrow. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies No. 7, the way train, grumbling through Minnesota, imperceptibly climbing the giant tableland that slopes in a thousand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies. Main Street It is rather an elevated tableland, though there are stretches of tropical forest, but it is not so tropical a country as many suppose it to be. Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold She found just the place in a corner of the little tableland where the grass grew tall and thick. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise They seldom ventured above the rim of the canyon, to the flat, wind-swept tableland. The Song of the Lark Moreover, he had come to a broader road running through a little tableland. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Upon the wide tableland that lies at the back of a certain Indian agency, a camp of a thousand teepees was pitched in a circle, according to the ancient usage. Old Indian Days First, at the beginning of the glacial period the region now known as the Great Basin was an elevated tableland, not furrowed as at present with mountains and valleys, but comparatively bald and featureless. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon They've got some peculiarly isolated valley or tableland up there, and their primeval customs have survived. Herland Buckalong was on one of the main routes by which stock were taken to market, or from the plains to the tablelands, and vice versa. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. O Pioneers! As a general rule, the higher tablelands lie to the east and south, while a progressive diminution in altitude towards the west and north is observable. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Flintcomb-Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous tableland over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk. Tess of the d'Urbervilles The name Wharram-le-Street reminds us forcibly of the existence in remote times of some great way over this tableland. Yorkshire With its cluster of outbuildings, it occupied nearly the whole of the plateau, which was like a jutting tableland out from the side of the mountain. The Avenger The most striking feature of the whole region is the tableland falling away in a number of terraces, and broken by the shoulders of massive hills. Freeland A Social Anticipation It is formed by a widening out of the eastern axis of high ground, which becomes subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of ranges, tablelands and depressions. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The last three and one-half miles lead across a level tableland, to a small lake, from which the trail descends through two lakes into a shallow valley. The Long Labrador Trail The way seemed familiar to him; for, ascending to the ledge above them, he led his companion across the tableland tenderly, pointing out the little difficulties in their route, and cautioning her against injury. The Spy After crossing a stretch of grass-grown tableland it descends to the waters of Ocoa Bay and continues literally through the surf. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future These rapids and cataracts were at the lower end of the tableland which, as indicative of the use we made of it, we named Cornland. Freeland A Social Anticipation On tablelands over 6500 ft. above the sea, frost is not uncommon at night, even in places directly under the equator. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Without a guide who had traversed them, we have ventured into trackless tablelands where water was not found for several marches. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert We continued our journey, the road ascending towards the tableland, and at one striking point of view we got out and looked back upon Jalapa, and round upon a panorama of mountains. Life in Mexico The sturdy manner in which its windows faced the scantily-wooded tableland that stretched away unbroken by wall or hedgerow to the sea, implied a certain thickness of wall and woodwork. The Slave of the Lamp In the glowing west, towards which they journeyed, rose far purple peaks peering over the edge of the great tableland. Eleanor Moderately elevated tablelands are thus the characteristic feature of the continent, though the surface of these is broken by higher peaks and ridges. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is beautifully located on a broad tableland, from which its Spanish name is derived, and is the center of one of the richest of farming communities. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert Sterility of soil, a Siberian climate, geographical isolation, here reach their climax, whilst at the base of these lofty calcareous tablelands lie sequestered valleys fertile fields and flowery gardens, oases of the Lozérien Sahara. The Roof of France Standing there he gazed thoughtfully across the bare, unlovely tableland towards the sea. The Slave of the Lamp And now they were on a broad tableland, a bare, sun-baked region where huge flocks of sheep, of white, black, and brown goats wandered with ragged shepherds over acres of burnt and thirsty pasture. Eleanor Archaean.—The metamorphic rocks compose the main mass of the tableland, and are exposed in every deep valley in Tigre and along the valley of the Blue Nile. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 There had been conclusion to settle upon the tableland to the southwest. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert Dazzlingly bright the verdure, fertile and sunny the valleys we now leave behind—arid and desolate beyond the power of words to express the tableland reached so laboriously. The Roof of France Accordingly the five young people walked across the bleak tableland together. The Slave of the Lamp The camp was placed near one edge of the tableland, and on this exposed side the stockade was wisely constructed of double strength. With Edged Tools N. roughly marks the division between north and south—-has more open tableland than the northern portion and fewer lofty peaks. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It begins with the lofty tablelands of Iran, and extends, ordinarily at a less elevation, to the extremity of the continent. Outline of Universal History They walked on quietly and soberly to the brow of the tableland, where they parted; Hugh being obliged to go home, and Fleda wishing to pay a visit to her aunt Miriam. Queechy Christian was in the midst of a problem as he walked across the tableland that stretched from St. Mary Western to the sea. The Slave of the Lamp Slowly he climbed to the level of the tableland; and Denise, sitting at the open window, heard the sound of his horse's feet, and wondered who might be abroad at that hour. The Isle of Unrest On the tableland a great variety of grains and vegetables are cultivated. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Quebec stands on the eastern end of a sort of promontory, or narrow tableland, between the St Lawrence and the valley of the St Charles. The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf A round windmill, much resembling the ruined structure that stands out conspicuously on the bare tableland of Alderney, is the first of these picturesque features that we have seen in this part of the country. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 When we join the broad and straight national road running towards Gisors we have reached the tableland just mentioned. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 The gorge was getting very shadowy when I reached the tableland above it. Two Summers in Guyenne This tremendous hurricane, starting from the high Asiatic tablelands, felled the decaying oaks and worm-eaten buildings of the whole ancient world. Amiel's Journal This tableland is less than a mile wide and narrows still more as it approaches Quebec. The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf It opens out; the rocks melt away into bare white dunes, the country assuming the character of a tableland; you begin to feel a sense of aloofness. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia It was as Mami had said, very strong, a kind of tableland ringed round with precipices that could only be climbed through a single narrow nek, and overshadowed by the great Quathlamba range. The Ghost Kings I met a peasant who owned the highest part of the tableland, and who managed to grow crops upon it. Two Summers in Guyenne |
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