Here leapt the boisterous waters, high As mountains, menacing the sky, And wild infernal forms between The ridges of the waves were seen.
See, on those mountain ridges stand Sweet shrubs that bud and bloom expand.
The low-lying lands enclosed by this amphitheatre of hills form the Cheshire Plain, broken only by ridges or terraces of low sandstone hills running north and south.
The land beneath them rose in rounded ridges of solid rock.
Since the days were still short everyone worked till dark, searching rocky ridges and river banks for elusive signs of wealth and then walking home over long miles after dark.
Having to build a trail in some places in order to carry the goods across ridges and boulders, it was not alone the work on lowering the boats which delayed us.
The surrounding country was made up of huge ridges that ran in toward the river from five miles back.
In this case, as in all similar ones, broad expanses being covered to an enormous depth with ice, the surface of the latter must in some degree be modified by the ridges and valleys it conceals.
The western part is undulated and hilly, the southern rises in rocky ridges of limestone and coal, and the eastern is very flat and stony, broken only by low isolated conical mounds.
This rearward part of the mountain region is Tibet, where all the Sikkim, Nepal, and Bhotan rivers rise as small streams, increasing in size as they receive the drainage from the snowed parts of the ridges that bound them in their courses.
The bottom of the Lachoong valley at Momay is broad, tolerably level, grassy, and covered with isolated mounds and ridges that point down the valley, and are the remains of glacial deposits.
From its top successive smaller parallel ridges (indicating the periodic retirements of the glacier) lead down to the ice, which must have sunk several hundred feet.
They are now found east of the Blue Ridge only, on higher ridges and spurs of the mountains.
From the lake district south and southwest to the Ionian Sea, the boundary runs perpendicular to the terrain trend lines and crosses a number of ridges instead of following them.
The border that runs generally north from the lakes, although it follows the ridges of the eastern highlands, stays some ten to twenty miles west of the watershed divide.
In the extreme north and the northeastern mountainous sections, the border with Yugoslavia connects high points and follows mountain ridges through the North Albanian Alps where there is little movement of the people.
An intermixture of softer rocks has eroded and become the basis for the sedimentation that has resulted in wider valleys between the ridgesthan are common in the remainder of the country.
The ridges of the uplands are extensions of the Dalmatian coastal range that enters Albania from Yugoslavia.
In the process they cut through the ridges rather than flowing around them.
The streams came into existence at that time and antedate the ridges because the compression and folding of the plateau occurred later.
The abdomen is broad, covering the whole under side of the body, and is marked off with prominent raisedridges diverging from the center line.
Venus cancellata/, but its concentric ridges are very numerous and sharp.
The calcareous forms are usually ornamented with ridges which form beautiful patterns.
This species has several prominent revolving ridges upon the upper side of the whorls, with finer ones on the base.
It is much smaller, varying from two to three inches in length, lacks the crenulations of the sutures, and is perfectly smooth, save for a few spiral ridges about the base.
It is sculptured, with revolving ridges and crossing longitudinal folds.
The lunule is heart-shaped; the posterior margin is broadened into a wide, concave area into which the concentric ridges do not pass.
The body is thick and somewhat circular in form, with elevated radiating ridges on the upper side, and the skin is marked off in star-like divisions.
That is, in the monkeys the jaws and superciliary ridges become still more prominent than in man.
The fragment of the skull attracted wide attention by its bestial aspect, it presenting a low, narrow and receding forehead, and an enormous thickness of the bony ridges over the eyes, like that seen in the gorilla.
At La Denise, in the upper Loire, France, have been found the frontal bones of a man like the Neanderthal man in type, the forehead being depressed and retreating, and the superciliary ridgeslarge and thick.
I had made but a short journey, for the path led through ridges and hillocks of moving sand, and my horse sank to the knees at every step.
Some of them run for miles in horizontal ridges like the roofs of houses, and seemingly so narrow at their tops that one might sit astride of them.
He attacked the ridges about Lancer's Nek and all his troops behaved brilliantly.
In other words, they took all the rough eminences of the outer ranges best adapted for their own tactics, and left the bare, shelterless plains or ridges to us.
Last night we heard rifle-firing on the ridges south of Cæsar's Camp and Waggon Hill.
To make this perfectly clear without the aid of a map showing contours of all ridges and hollows is very difficult, and one can only attempt to give in words a rough idea of the general position.
In so long a time as has elapsed since the tilting of the Triassic formation, the divides would have taken their places on the crest of the trap ridges and not behind the crest on the back slope.
The Watchung ridges extend only about eight miles northward of the Paterson gaps, but reach thirty miles southwestward.
With respect to the age at which the several parallel ridges composing the Cordillera were upthrown, I have little evidence.
As most of the nearly parallel ridges which together form the Cordillera run approximately north and south, the east and west valleys cross them in zig-zag lines, bursting through the points where the strata have been least inclined.
In the eastern part of the group the several parallel ridges of quartz extend in a west and east line; but further westward the line becomes W.
The mountain-ridges consist of quartz, and the lower country of clay-slate and sandstone, the latter containing Palaeozoic fossils.
Considering the nature and dampness of this peaty soil, it is surprising that the fine ridges on the outside of the Venus are perfectly preserved, though all the shells have a blackened appearance.
In crossing the Cordillera by this Pass, it is said that three principal ridges must be traversed, instead of two, or only one as in Central Chile.
Eitre" has been explained to me as the old very wide ridges that used to be used in ancient times which left an almost indelible track in the ground.
It had thrown out an advance guard of flying scud, which already partially enshrouded the peaks and ridges dominating the Rhone Valley to the eastward, and still it crept on.
Again, there rose the green serrated ridges of the Chaine des Verreaux, beneath whose shadow she had received his first declaration of love.
Oh, how silent, peaceful, deserted, the far-away slopes and ridges over the prairie!
Then, with their pocket-knives as chisels, and stones as mallets, they began their futile attempts to cut away the holding ridges of rock.
He managed to break off several pieces, but it was easy to see that it would take much more work to loosen the retaining ridges so that the bowlder that imprisoned them would fall outward.
Occasionally we crossed high, abrupt ridges of black or chocolate-hued rock, separated from each other by gorges so deep that except at noontide, no sunbeam penetrated them.
On the western side these ridges seemed to break like waves against the enormous bronze-hued bastions of the Kamiesbergen; on the eastward they sank by degrees into the ocean-like expanse of the desert.
Irregular and convoluted ridges arose from it here and there; it appeared to be absolutely bare of vegetation.
The desert here was not quite so flat as usual; the brown expanse undulated in long, low ridges running parallel to our course.
These, we were told, often took the form of abrupt ridges extremely difficult to negotiate with any vehicle, no matter how strongly built.
The roofs are always covered with tiles, and a curious effect is produced by enriching the hips and ridges with several courses of tiles in cement, thus making them rise considerably above the other portions of the roof.
This shaft is channelled with twenty shallow channels,[13] the ridges separating one from another being very fine lines.
The rift-valley, though with a generally level floor, is divided by transverse ridges into a series of basins, each containing a lake without outlet.
A succession of plateaus descends from the highest ridges on the north to the south, where a series of small ghats march with the nizam's territory.
The mountains themselves rise in a succession of ridges parallel to the coast.
Special precautions, too, must be observed in the fixing of copings, chimney pots, ridges and hips.
Even at that distant date its southern limits were marked out by ridges of Archaean rocks, which seem to have formed islands in what is now middle Germany, and probably also in Switzerland and central France.
The rough ridges have been rounded off, the sharp escarpments have been bevelled, the abrupt tors and peaks have been smoothed down.
Such alternating hollows and rounded ridges are very conspicuous in Barra and the smaller islands to the south, and they may likewise be noted in most of the larger islands also.
Even at that distant date its southern limits were marked out by ridgesof Archaean rock, which, as I have said, seem to have formed islands in what is now central Europe.
Now the remarkable circumstance about these scratches is this--they agree in direction with the trend of the rock-ridges and the hollows described above.
The ridges and hollows are most conspicuous in the low-grounds of Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, especially in the regions between Kelso and Smailholm, and between Duns and Coldstream.
In the hilly regions, again, nearly all the ridges are of rock alone, especially in the districts lying between Melrose and Selkirk and between Selkirk and Hawick.
It was provident that although so near these ridgeswere escaped.
We rigged three sledges for man-haulage and brought the seals about two miles, the sledging parties being guided among the ridges and pools by semaphore from the crow's-nest.
At this southern end of the Caird Coast the ice-sheet, undulating over the hidden and imprisoned land, is bursting down a steep slope in tremendous glaciers, bristling with ridges and spikes of ice and seamed by thousands of crevasses.
In almost any direction at a distance of half a mile from the ship there are pressure ridges of eight-inch ice piled twenty feet high.
Heavy pressure- ridges were forming in all directions, and though the immediate pressure upon the ship was not severe, I realized that the respite would not be prolonged.
Ahead of us lay the ridges and spurs of a range of mountains, the transverse range that we had noticed from the bay.
The diatoms cannot multiply without light, and the ice formed since February can be distinguished in the pressure-ridges by its clear blue colour.
Ridges are being forced up in all directions, and there is a water-sky to the south- east.
The pack as far as the eye could reach was in a condition of chaos, much rafted and consolidated, with very large pressure-ridges in all directions.
The weather continued fine and calm, and as the ridges drew nearer and the western coast of the island spread out below, the bright moonlight showed us that the interior was broken tremendously.
The ice around ship is packing up and forming ridges about two feet high.
The rookery was in a hollow surrounded by pressure ridges six feet high.
The 23rd brought a strong north- westerly wind, and the movement of the floes and pressure-ridges became more formidable.
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