About midway between the beginning and the end of the mountainous region of the Rhine is a place where there are two very important works of this kind.
The water which falls upon this mountainous region must of course find its way to the sea.
It is the name given to a mountainous mass of land which rises into seven or more principal peaks, just at the entrance of the romantic part of the Rhine.
They form, in fact, the commencement of the mountainous region of the Rhine, in ascending the river from Cologne.
Such, in its general features, is the mountainous region of the Rhine, as it appears to the travellers who go to visit it at the present day; and it was this region that Rollo and Mr. George were now going to explore.
All this, which I have thus been explaining, may be seen very clearly if you turn to any map of Europe, and find the mountainous region in the centre, and then trace the courses of the four great rivers, as I have described them.
The reason why these mountainous regions are so highly cultivated is because the soil and climate are such that they produce the best and most delicious grapes in the world.
Mount Yasubi is the mountainous district which separates Khanekin from Holwân.
The mountainous district on the shores of the Caspian had for centuries enjoyed a reputation for wealth and fertility among the races settled on the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris.
He was engaged up to the last in a quarrel with the princes who occupied the mountainous country to the north of the Araxes, and his son Argistis spent the first few years of his reign in completing his conquests in this region.
The whole of the vast extent of mountainous country drained by these streams is known to be more or less auriferous.
For the island is fertile and is yet barren; it is mountainous and has great stretches of plain in it along the eastern shore.
November 1778; the mountainous parts, which are connected by a low flat isthmus, appearing at first like two separate islands.
The land to the westward of Two-headed Point, is not so mountainous as it is to the N.
Lugos carries on an active trade in wine, and has several important fairs, while the surrounding country, which is mountainous and well-wooded, produces large quantities of grapes and plums.
Lozere is mountainous throughout and in average elevation is the highest of all the French departments.
Dolerite and gabbro, in turn invaded by granite, have broken through the limestone north of Dundalk Bay, and form a striking and mountainous promontory.
Like the islands of Japan, it ismountainous and well watered.
In the mountainous regions the chair and kago take the place of the 'rikisha.
The islands are so mountainous that only about one-twelfth the area is capable of cultivation.
This wilderness is not the waste that we expected to find, but merely a broken and mountainous country, too stony to be cultivated and fit only for grazing.
Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.
On the right and left were the waving lines of mountainous ridges, which had no peculiarity enabling me to ascertain whether I had ever before seen them.
There was reason to suppose him smitten with the charms of solitude, of a lonely abode in the midst of mountainous and rugged nature; but this could not be uninterruptedly enjoyed.
The journey was to be performed in an open cart, over a mountainous country, in the heats of summer.
They were content to gasp and study in silence the mountainous personality of Sergeant Cursem.
Yet the little craft was making splendid weather of it, riding the mountainous seas as light and dry as a gull, looking well up into the wind, and fore-reaching at the rate of fully three knots in the hour.
The westward end of this mountainous range rises into Mount Hermon.
In maps recently published, presumably with some authority, vast mountainous districts are now included in this somewhat mysterious phrase.
Alps, Apennines and Pyrenees, as well as on some of the mountainous ranges of France and Germany, extending as far east as Bosnia and the Danubian principalities.
And this land of Darien is very mountainous and ill-travelling as I remember.
This dukedom, about the size of the State of Massachusetts, a wild and mountainous region, was deemed very important as the key to Italy.
At Medellin, in the mountainousregion of Antioquia, 4950 ft.
The mountainous region of Colombia is subject to volcanic disturbances and earthquake shocks are frequent, especially in the south.
Colombia is usually described as an extremely mountainous country, which is true of much less than half its total area.
Above this tropical zone in the mountainous regions are to be found all the varying gradations of climate which we are accustomed to associate with changes in latitude.
The geographical position of Colombia gives to it a fauna and flora largely characteristic of the great tropical region of the Amazon on the south-east, and of the mountainous regions of Central America on the north-west.
In compensation the famous emerald mines of Muzo and Coscuez are situated in an extremely mountainous region north of Bogota and near the town of Chiquinaquira, in the department of Boyaca.
In Switzerland, Saxony, the Tyrol, or any other mountainous region where I have been, there is nothing at all to be compared to these extraordinary peaks.
In a great centre-dish there appeared the big fish in a sea of sauce surrounded by a mountainous shore of rice.
It is not certain that the race which eventually conquered and founded the historical dynasties came from the mountainous lands to the east.
The long and fertile valley which lies between the mountainous region and the southern desert is, like the valley of the Nile, a quite recent formation.
The roads, in somountainous a region as the Catterskills, are in winter not only difficult, but dangerous.
It consists of a hilly, rather than a mountainous district, of some forty miles in one direction, and thirty in another.
The mountainous slopes of Biscay are studded with the traditional Basque caserio, or farm-house, in which the peasantry live on the metayer system, dividing the profits of the soil with absentee landlords.
It takes its rise in a mountainous region which is described as the wildest of all wild parts of the Central Provinces, crosses the Bilaspur boundary near Seorinarain, and after a course of 25 m.
