The main seemed to be high land, trending to the westward.
This part of New Guinea is high land, adorned with tall trees that appeared very green and flourishing.
We coasted along by the island Roti which is high land, spotted with woods and savannahs.
On New Year's Day we first descried the land of New Guinea, which appeared to be high land; and the next day we saw several high islands on the coast of New Guinea, and ran in with the mainland.
We proceeded for some distance into the more westerly of the two, but found that it was merely a sound, terminated by high land.
No mountains or high land could be seen to the north or east; the country seemed there to change its character, and become {224} lower and less wooded.
Being on the weather side of high land, but sheltered by low islands, williwaws do not annoy during westerly winds; but in a southerly gale I think they would be furious.
The range of high land seen to the westwards, could be nothing but a fog bank, so that Roggewein set out from Juan Fernandez in search of a nonentity.
To the westwards, about twelve leagues by estimation, we saw a range of high land which we took to be islands, as there were several partitions in the prospect, and this land seemed to extend fourteen or sixteen leagues.
Montegorda, a high land up the country appearing over the Three Brothers; S.
The coast then extends to the north to Endeavour River, and forms a few inconsiderable sinuosities; it is backed by high land, particularly abreast of the Hope Islands.
Later, the ice having cleared to some extent, they were enabled to make good headway, and on July 16th they discovered a great deal of high land to the northward and eastward.
In 1880 I planted twenty acres of apples trees of many varieties; Ben Davis and Jonathan were the only ones that paid me on high land.
I prefer medium to high land, with a clay and loam soil on a subsoil of clay and sand; any slope is better than southwest.
Windbreaks are beneficial on high land, made of cottonwood, or better of cedar or Norway spruce, planted on the south side when you plant the orchard.
I do not fertilize, and would only advise it on high land.
If high land in high latitudes is the principal cause of the present glaciation of Greenland, still higher land must have been so in causing the still greater glaciation of the former period.
On New Year's Day we first descried the land of New Guinea, which appeared to be high land, and the next day we saw several high islands on the coast of New Guinea, and ran in with the main land.
This part of New Guinea is high land, adorned with tall trees, that appeared very green and flourishing.
All next day the 'Aurora' steamed into the eye of an easterly wind towards a low white island, the higher positions of which had been seen by the German Expedition of 1902, and charted as Drygalski's High Land.
The position as indicated by the noon observations placed the ship within seven miles of a portion of Totten's High Land in Wilkes's charts.
Of the Mount Granard range I could see and intersect only that remarkable cape-like point which was also the high land visible to the westward from Mount Granard itself, being named Warranary by Barney.
I could see no high land to the westward, and the hill on which I stood seemed to divide the singular lacustrine country from that where the character of the surface was fluviatile.
After fording this stream with ascended a very steep but grassy mountain-side, and on reaching a brow of high land, what a noble prospect appeared!
The east end of the island is a high land like a saddle, having a valley which gives it that appearance; while the west end is lower, with several small round hillocks[227].
Between them and 8 leagues from Sesto river is a high land called Cakeado, and S.
The 6th in the morning we got sight of Teneriffe, otherwise called the Peak, being very high land, with a peak on the top like a sugar loaf; and the same night we got sight of Palma, which also is high land and W.
It is situated on high land at the mouth of the Stour, and near the confluence of the latter with the Orwell, immediately opposite the well-known Landguard Fort.
The trees on the bottom land are not as large and have not borne half as many nuts as the ones planted on high land.
Pecans in High Land There have been a number of articles written by men well posted claiming that the pecan will not bear or thrive except on the cultivated bottom lands of our valleys and streams.
Chappel Island, which forms the East-side of the Bay is high Land also.
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