In all those cases in which an island has been separated from a continent, or raised by volcanic or coralline action from the sea, or in which a mountain-chain has been elevated in a recent geological epoch, the phaenomena of peculiar groups or even of single representative species will not exist. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Niigata, which are usually abruptly abandoned on finding a mountain-chain in the way with never a road over it. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
I wondered how any mountain-chain could have supplied such masses, and not have been utterly obliterated. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Tourists from England, or from any part of Western Europe, may easily visit the great mountain-chain on which Prometheus was found, by crossing the Black Sea from Constantinople or from Odessa, and landing at Poti, where the Russians have constructed a railway to Tiflis, once the capital of Georgia, now the residence of the ❋ Various (N/A)
A repetition of two thousand shocks, of equal violence, might produce a mountain-chain one hundred miles long, and six thousand feet high. ❋ Various (N/A)
I trust, however, that I have made it plain to them that the great mountain-chain of the Alps has been a central axis from which immense glaciers at one time descended in every direction, not only to its base, beyond which the lowlands extend in flat undulations, but to a greater or less distance over the adjoining plains; while at present they are confined to the higher valleys. ❋ Various (N/A)
One moonlight night, in the dead silence of the ice-bound winter, he stood on the ridge of the mountain-chain and began to descend its eastern slope. ❋ Various (N/A)
The bird's-eye view here presented will show the Appalachian mountain-chain, and the waters which thread their way along its gentle slopes eastward to the Atlantic basin and westward to the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. ❋ Various (N/A)
Its direction was from north to south, and so long as the mass then raised did not come in contact with the land created by former upheavals, it preserved its regular line, as we find in the mountain-chain of Capo Corso. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
It is the termination of the mighty mountain-chain of the Andes, and is formed of a mass of colossal basaltic rocks, thrown together in wild disorder, as by a ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Between us and the great mountain-chain that forms the rim of the valley, lies a group of extinct volcanos, from one of which descends the great lava-field. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)
Valdemosa is about twelve miles north of Palma, in the heart of the only mountain-chain of the island, which forms its western, or rather northwestern coast. ❋ Various (N/A)
They are poets, too, so to speak, of one family, unequal in rank, but having that resemblance of character which marks the higher and lower peaks of the same mountain-chain. ❋ Various (N/A)
These ranges form together the great semicircular mountain-chain, known as the anti-Dacian system, through which the Danube finds a passage at the Iron ❋ Various (N/A)
Starting back from Santa Fé towards Pecos on a dry, sandy wagon-road, we lose sight of the table-land and its environing mountain-chain, when turning into the ridges east of Manzanares. ❋ Adolphus Bandelier (N/A)
We had to go down the Volga to the Nine Feet Station below Astrakhan, embark there on the Caspian Sea, and cross over either to Baku, whence we could go by post round the mountain-chain at its southern extremity as far as Tiflis; or land at Petrofsk, and travel along the chain to Vladikavkas and the good military road across the chain to Tiflis. ❋ Various (N/A)
No mountain-chain had been crossed by a locomotive before the Alleghanies were outraged, as we see them, here and by this track. ❋ Various (N/A)
For the largest rivers and longest mountain-chain in the world. ❋ James Monteith (N/A)
IT was no easy matter to pass through the British forces that lay massed around the mountain-chain. ❋ Philip Pienaar (N/A)
