The mountain had flattened out in a wide grass-covered tableland moistened by many underground springs.
Not until the small car had climbed the last ascending stretch of road to the tableland and had stopped in front of the ancient corner store did he receive a reply.
From that high elevation they had a view of the road coming from Tombstone as it climbed to the tableland and also they could see for miles across the desert valley toward the Bar N ranch.
Dora said as the two girls seated themselves on the top step of the front porch to gaze out across the shimmering desert valley, below the tableland on which they lived.
The rutty road was leading up toward the tableland on which stood the now nearly deserted old mining-town of Gleeson.
In order to reach the tableland of Murcens, it was necessary to cross again the roaring torrent of the Vers, and after several vain attempts to do so, by means of the rocks lying in its bed, I came to a bridge which solved the difficulty.
The site of the oppidum is a little tableland raised above the surrounding soil by a natural embankment.
The highest plains of the tableland attain about the same elevation as the pass upon which you stand; all the outlines in the distance are horizontal, all the shapes shallow-vaulted and convex.
The mountains reveal their essential nature and disclose the familiar forms--the surface of the tableland broken into long furrows, of which the ridges tend to hummock shapes.
The tableland with its open landscapes is unfolded before you, swelling and falling from plain to hummock, from hummock to rounded ridge, from vaulted ridge to the soaring arcs of an Alagöz and an Ararat, crowned with perpetual snow.
Armenian tableland from the plains of Mesopotamia to the Black Sea.
The Jew is a rare creature upon the tableland of Armenia; he finds it difficult to exist by the side of the Armenian, who is his rival in his own peculiar sphere.
But within the limits of those gentler shapes was outspread an ideal landscape, typical of the most elevated areas of the tableland (Fig.
Besides the last-named stream this lofty stage of the Armenian tableland gives birth to one of the great rivers of western Asia.
The natural avenue from east to west across the tableland of Armenia, it gives easy access to the heart of Asia Minor from the shores of the Caspian Sea.
Thence from the Pamir tableland extends the mighty range of the Himalaya, where rise the highest summits on the face of the globe.
On the right-hand side the eye never tires of the distant horizon of mountains which bounds the tableland of Tibet to the north.
Fern and heath, clumps of gorse and misshapen rocks, diversified the barren surface on every side, and I now seemed to have gained the summit, a vast tableland spreading away for miles.
Now, a Mess has very little indeed of this requisite; on the contrary, its great stronghold is the fact that it offers an easy tableland for all capacities.
The rest was a short one; he soon motioned me to resume the way, and we plodded onward for an hour longer, when we came to a great tableland of several miles in extent, but which still I could perceive was on a very high level.
In utter silence they drove swiftly along the road, through the woods and out upon the crest of tableland overlooking the bay; just above the shore where the huckleberry party had coasted along, that afternoon years before.
Above it, on the higher grounds of the shore, the main body of the farm lay, where a rich tableland sloped back to a mountainous ridge that framed it in, about half a mile from the water.
Just as they reached the river, at a little hamlet under the hill at the foot of the north bay, where the road branched off to skirt the face of the tableland towards the home promontory, the wagon was stopped by Mr. Underhill.
In front, the undulating military road ran straight across the hightableland to the west.
At the head of the glen they climbed a long grassy slope and came to a tableland where the peat was torn into great black rifts and piled in hummocks.
For a direct attack Beresford's dispositions were correct, but upon his right a tableland stretched so far back as to command the Valverde road and to look along the back of the English position.
Both the Indians and the infantry were in position and advanced on the hostile camp, which, situated as it was on this tableland covered with canebrake and boulders, formed an ideal position for Indian defense.
The small tableland on which the camp was located bordered on the Yaqui River and was surrounded on all sides by high cliffs with practically only two points of entrance, one up the river and the other down.
It was dark before we reached the edge of the tableland again, and I shouted down in the hopes of getting an answer which would guide us to the encampment below.
Mekidje is practically at sea-level; Eskishehr is a tableland two thousand feet high; we had therefore a steady rise on the whole journey up the valley formed by the Kara Su, a river which has its source in the neighbourhood of Eskishehr.
Artillery Road was a winding gun-track that climbed out of Gully Ravine up to the tableland beneath Achi Baba.
On a tableland by the banks of the great river, some score of miles to the south of Salto, he established a camp from which he directed the policy of the five provinces that owned to his rule.
On the summit of the tableland is a peculiarly tall stone pedestal that rises from a great pyramidal base to soar high upwards against the sky-line.
Southern border of Mexican tableland north in spring to southern Arizona.
Mexican boundary region of Texas and New Mexico south over the Mexico tableland to Oaxaca.
Western United States, from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains west to the Pacific; breeds from the southern end of the Mexican tableland north to British Columbia; winters from Oregon and southern Colorado southward.
Tableland of Mexico from Puebla north to Mexican border of United States; Lower California, and (rarely) California.
Tableland of Mexico, from the Valley of Mexico, north to central and western Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico and southern Arizona.
Tableland of Mexico north to western Texas and southern Arizona.
Mountainous portions of the Mexican tableland north to southern Arizona.
I have taken it in some abundance on the Tableland of Mount Arthur, at an altitude of 3,500 feet above the sea-level.
This handsome species has hitherto only occurred on the Tableland of Mount Arthur, where, however, it seems to be common.
A single specimen of this species was taken on the Tableland of Mount Arthur, at an altitude of about 3,500 feet.
I have taken several specimens of what appears to be a variety of this species on the Tableland of Mount Arthur.
On the Mount Arthur Tableland it occurred very commonly at about 3,800 feet above the sea-level.
Mr. Fereday has six specimens taken at Lake Guyon, and I have two specimens captured on the Tableland of Mount Arthur, at an elevation of about 3,500 feet.
I have taken it at light on theTableland of Mount Arthur, at 3,600 feet above the sea-level.
The Morona has been the scene of many rude explorations, with the hope of finding it serviceable as a commercial route between the inter-Andean tableland of Ecuador and the Amazon river.
The East African tableland is continued into Abyssinia.
On the tableland a great variety of grains and vegetables are cultivated.
The south-west monsoon sweeps up the Nerbudda valley from Bombay and crossing the tableland at Neemuch gives copious supplies to Malwa, Jhalawar and Kotah and the countries which lie in the course of the Chambal river.
A few narrow, crooked creeks cut their way through the great tablelandof prairie.
One day, dropping suddenly down off the tableland into a draw, I came squarely upon a shack.
It is from this central tableland of Asia, radiating so to say, around this point of origin, that Man has progressively occupied every part of the earth.
Now, those three general forms of language are, at the present day, to be met with around the central tableland of Asia.
Around the central tableland of Asia, are found the three organic and fundamental types of man, that is to say, the white, the yellow, and the black.
Around the central tableland of Asia, we thus find not only the three fundamental types of the human species, but the three types of human speech.
Tympanic bulla as large as foramen magnum; hind foot less than 74; geographic range limited to southern edge of Mexican tableland at high elevations Romerolagus diazi, p.
On the tableland of Mexico and in the southwestern United States where this species occurs together with the white-sided jack rabbits, L.
Composed of Silurian slates chiefly, it forms an extensive tablelandat the north of Killary Fiord, in the south-west corner of Mayo.
When the direction of the wall changes you make a compromise midway between the old and the new, and very soon come on to a line of cairns which continues right on to the boggy tableland above.
From the Olifants river on the west to the Kei river on the east the series of parallel ranges, which are the walls of the terraces between the inner tableland and the sea, are clearly traceable.
The tablelandis broken by the Orange river, which traverses its whole length.
That part of the inner tableland of South Africa which is in the colony has an average elevation of 3000 ft.
A tableland at this height extends back nearly to the centre of the island, and from this tableland arises a lofty cone like that of Teneriffe.
The only place whence gold in great quantities could have come is the central tableland of Rhodesia, from which it has been estimated that the ancient output was of the value of at least 75 millions.
The fine city of Guadalajara, described in another chapter, is situated upon the tableland portion of the state, and so enjoys the benefit of railway connection with the main line of the Republic, by means of the Mexican Central.
The rich tropical regions of both the eastern and western slopes of the tableland of Anahuac thus paid tribute to the Aztecs, as well as the boundless resources of the south.
In addition to these various and petty powers and independent republics upon thetableland of Anahuac and its slopes, must be mentioned that of Cholula, a state to the south of Tenochtitlan, in what now is the State of Puebla.
The great estates which form his hacienda lie in one or the other part of the country, whether upon the great tableland or in the tropical regions which surround it.
Scantily clad, the peon suffers from the brusque change from torrid day to bitterly cold night which the climate of the great tableland produces.
The topography of the state is that remarkable one typical of the physical structure of Mexico--of hot coast plains, temperate higher regions, and the cold uplands of the Sierra Madre mountains and the great tableland of the interior.
Great plains and plantations of maguey exist upon the tableland for the making of pulque, Hidalgo alone having 129 haciendas devoted to this industry.
The tableland is, however, intersected by various lesser ranges of hills, and is not by any means a flat, unbroken expanse.
These mountains close in towards the south, enclosing the tableland in a tapering form, and the Valley of Mexico which forms its extremity.
From the tropical lands and climate of the tierra caliente they had reached the frowning fastnesses of the great mountains and lofty peaks, which overhang the crest of the eastern slope of the tableland of Mexico.
Accordingly the five young people walked across the bleak tableland together.
Christian was in the midst of a problem as he walked across the tableland that stretched from St. Mary Western to the sea.
Standing there he gazed thoughtfully across the bare, unlovely tableland towards the sea.
The sturdy manner in which its windows faced the scantily-wooded tableland that stretched away unbroken by wall or hedgerow to the sea, implied a certain thickness of wall and woodwork.
By short day-marches we went on past the wildly romantic Chala lake, shut in by dark perpendicular rocks, through the wooded hillsides of Rombo and over the tableland of Useri.
The most striking feature of the whole region is the tableland falling away in a number of terraces, and broken by the shoulders of massive hills.
These rapids and cataracts were at the lower end of the tableland which, as indicative of the use we made of it, we named Cornland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tableland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
