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... Table - land , Plateau , Highland , Plain , Low- land , Valley , Basin , & c . Mountain , a heaped up mass of the earth's surface which towers above the adjacent district to a height of 2000 feet and upwards . Obs . 1. The highest part ...
... Table - land , Plateau , Highland , Plain , Low- land , Valley , Basin , & c . Mountain , a heaped up mass of the earth's surface which towers above the adjacent district to a height of 2000 feet and upwards . Obs . 1. The highest part ...
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... Table - land , an extent of land raised to a considerable elevation above the sea , and presenting a surface more or less uniform . Obs . When table - lands of different elevations are connected together , they are termed Terraces ...
... Table - land , an extent of land raised to a considerable elevation above the sea , and presenting a surface more or less uniform . Obs . When table - lands of different elevations are connected together , they are termed Terraces ...
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... tableland of Puna , on the Plateau of Peru , where they have their origin - a branch of the S. E. trade winds which blows for four months of the year from the snowy Cordilleras . They are extremely dry and bitterly cold . 2. The Pampero ...
... tableland of Puna , on the Plateau of Peru , where they have their origin - a branch of the S. E. trade winds which blows for four months of the year from the snowy Cordilleras . They are extremely dry and bitterly cold . 2. The Pampero ...
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... tablelands , as in Norway , or on mountain slopes , as in the Alps . Avalanches are falls of more or less consolidated snow which break off from the edges of snowfields overhanging steep slopes , and rush with violence and thundering ...
... tablelands , as in Norway , or on mountain slopes , as in the Alps . Avalanches are falls of more or less consolidated snow which break off from the edges of snowfields overhanging steep slopes , and rush with violence and thundering ...
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... Tablelands . These do not form any very distinctive feature in European geography . The most important of them are a . The Tableland of Castile , in Spain , the most extensive and the loftiest plateau in Europe , its general elevation ...
... Tablelands . These do not form any very distinctive feature in European geography . The most important of them are a . The Tableland of Castile , in Spain , the most extensive and the loftiest plateau in Europe , its general elevation ...
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