The high valleys and plateaus originally belonged to the empire, the limits of which, although invaded and occupied by Siamese, formerly extended to the banks of the Mekong.
It raced across the llanos, the savannas and the pampas and covered the high plateaus in a slow relentless growth.
It forms the connecting-link between the plateaus of Haute Marne and the Ardennes, and is bounded E.
The elevatedplateaus between these ranges are semi-arid and inhospitable, and are covered with extensive saline basins, which become lagoons in the wet season and morasses or dry salt-pans in the dry season.
On the north it descends abruptly to the Black Sea; on the south it breaks down in rugged terraces to the lowlands of Mesopotamia; and on the east and west it sinks more gradually to the lower plateaus of Persia and Asia Minor.
Our best plan is to pitch our tent there in the hills on one of the plateaus and work from that point as our headquarters.
As we get nearer to them I can see through the glasses that there seem to be rocky plateaus on their upper ridges that would just about suit us for a settling-down place.
One of those bare plateaus will make an ideal landing-place,” said Frank, as the Golden Eagle swung steadily forward toward her decided destination.
To a great extent these plateaus are deprived of water, but the valleys have a super-abundance.
The streams run through deep valleys which divide these plateaus into distinct blocks, each with a striking individuality.
It contains innumerable little streams and rivers, and it is more uniformly elevated than in the east; the plateaus averaging between one and two hundred metres above sea-level.
Further down, on the plateaus beneath, several large pits for the cooking of mescal were discovered.
These three plateaus vary in width from a quarter of a mile to over a mile wide; they are dotted with what seem to be patches of grass, but which in reality are juniper and pinion trees from ten to forty feet in height.
It was cold almost to chilliness after the warmth of the preceding days, so there was no haste, no hurry, in the dispersion of the cloud blankets that covered the rocky walls and plateaus below.
The dark growths which crown the plateaus are in reality pine trees, which, on the north rim of the Canyon, attain immense size.
It is from these plateaus that the finest views of the real Canyon can be obtained.
On the plateaus above, there are millions of acres, most of which careful examination shows to be covered with disintegrated rock and comparatively little vegetable soil, except below the surface.
And yet a trip down the trail on to the plateaus reveals these stupendous facts in a manner that is surprising even to those who, for years, have been familiar with them.
Wherever one stands, at the eastern end of the Canyon, whether on the north or the south, on the promontories at the rim or on the plateaus beneath, it is the dominating and eye-compelling object.
On the north, it extends into Utah, where still higher plateaus bound it.
To these plateaus have been given the following names: the one to the right is Grand Scenic Divide, the middle one is named Huxley Terrace, and the one to the left (the west) is Spencer Terrace.
On the plateaus separating Hance Canyon from Mineral Canyon, and the latter from Red Canyon, one can see the rare Algonkian strata to fine advantage.
It is between Kaibab and Powell Plateaus that Bass's Trail to Point Sublime climbs its circuitous and winding way,--this portion being called "The Saddle.
Thus on mountains and plateaus it is considerably less than in lowlands.
A cold wind of the northern Adriatic, blowing down from the high plateaus to the northward.
North of it the land is higher, and ascends in a series of plateaus, and then terraces, a succession of cliffs like a great stair-way, rising to the high plateaus of Utah.
Proximity to large bodies of water, river valleys, and damp plateaus are undesirable as places of residence for invalids with lung troubles.
It is difficult to explain to one who has not seen it, or will not put himself in the leisurely frame of mind to enjoy it, the charms of the desert of the high plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona.
If the Grand Cañon itself did not dwarf everything else, the scenery of these plateaus would be superlative in interest.
For though the plains and plateaus could be crossed by the trunk-roads, the rest of the country is so broken up by mountain and valley that it presented few facilities either to foreign penetration or to external control.
The great trunk-roads of through communication run north and south, across the eastern plateaus of the Haurân and Moab, and along the coastal plains.
Clustered upon the shelves and plateaus below were several frozen lakes, and in all directions swept magnificent fields of snow.
Some of the inner slopes and plateaus seemed like familiar ground to me: I must have played upon them when a school-boy.
This has caused the drainage from the great northern plateaus to flow into the canyon and thus cut and carve the north side as we behold it.
The grandest of volcanic eruptions have produced no mountains whatever, but only vast plains or plateaus of consolidated molten rock, and every volcanic mountain at some time in its history has risen out of a relatively level surface.
Farmers crowded on the dry slopes and plateaus and irrigation projects were aided by the government.
Sidenote: =Irrigation projects aided by the government=] The need of more and still more land brought the farmers to the dry slopes and plateaus of both sides of the Rockies.
In the north they became acquainted with the snare formed by plateaus falling abruptly away into the wolf-trap of ravines, where the enemy, lying in ambush, refused to give ground.
On emerging from the plains of Champagne, at Epernay, the Marne flows through the plateaus of the Ile de France as far as Paris, and the country along its banks changes its aspect.
The Atlantic islands are the loftiest peaks and plateausof the submerged island.
The existence of the ocean plateaus revealed by the soundings of the “Dolphin” and the “Challenger” proves nothing as to their having been once raised above the waves; the most of the Atlantic islands are sharply cut off from them.
Wheat is raised, to some extent, in the river bottoms, and on the plateaus of the interior.
Not more so anywhere except on the broad, glittering snow-fields of the Arctic "pack," or the highest plateaus of the Himalayan hills.
Even here, however, in the midst of the wildest mountain and sylvan scenery, there were vast stretches of level valleys and plateausbetween the hills.
Sometimes you miss them altogether; but, as a rule, they occur more or less on the mesas or plateaus nearly everywhere, and seem in the distance like monumental columns.
The Allegheny ridges have only a thin stony soil; but good limestone, sandstone, shale and alluvial soils, occur in the valleys and in some of the plateaus of the extreme west.
The Masai were probably isolated in the high mountains or plateauswhich lie between the Nile and the Karamojo country.
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