Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...upland has been worn to its present condition by the great glaciers which spread over all New England, covering even the highest peaks of the White Mountains. The lowlands, like the valley of the Connecticut River, have been dug out to a lower level because they were formed of soft material. There still exist in New England many traces of the ice period such as the rounded rocks of the mountain tops, and the large boulders found everywhere...
...Scotchman; for though he went to Samoa to keep alive, he always longed for the "hills and home." This is seen not only in his verses but all through "David Balfour." Stevenson died on the third day of this month. He was carried to the top of a high mountain and there buried...
...misrepresentations. - (b) Adoption of methods they condemn in Catholics. - (c) Adoption of other illegal means. - (1) Against the U. S. and State Constitutions: Denver Daily News, Oct. 6, 1894. - (d) Retaliation. - (1) Against officials refusing to join. - (2) Against officers performing their duty notwithstanding A. P. A. oath: Rocky Mountain News, Denver...
...instruments which were stolen were purchased for a comparatively small sum but their value was greatly enhanced by the difficulty of transportation to Peru, and to the high mountain summit...
...students of physical geography, as the horizon of observation and comparison gradually widens, are enabled to settle certain principles which are immutable in their relation; those, for example, of the distribution of mountain ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically...