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  • The Amatole toad (Bufo amatolicus) and hogsback frog (Anhydrophryne rattrayi) are found mainly in the Amatole forest.

    Knysna-Amatole montane forests 2008

  • Another scramble upon a highly inclined hogsback, where weather-worn brown-black granite, protruded bone-like from the clay flesh, placed us at the outlying village of Kinbembu, with its line of palms; here the aneroid showed 1,322 feet.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • And just beyond the hogsback you can see John Simmon's fields.

    Ring Around the Sun Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 1952

  • They found it very difficult to climb the hogsback because of the snow, so when they reached the railroad they decided to follow it to Fairview rather than attempt the canyon trail.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • On the hogsback the snow had drifted badly, completely obliterating the trail.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • At the top of the hogsback the party separated into two groups.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • At the top of the hogsback that over-looked Bruin Inn the fellows sat down to rest.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • "Well," replied Mr. Allen, "if I don't succeed in getting Dad to tell it to you himself, I'll tell it when we stop on top of that hogsback to rest," pointing to a great, round hill in the canyon.

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • When the pack saddles were on, and the pack bags of food adjusted on either side, the blanket rolls piled high on top, they were ready to begin the journey, "Donkeys are a good deal like some men," observed Ham as the little column came to the base of the hogsback, "they always have to travel by freight."

    Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

  • Another scramble upon a highly inclined hogsback, where weather - worn brown-black granite, protruded bone-like from the clay flesh, placed us at the outlying village of Kinbembu, with its line of palms; here the aneroid showed 1,322 feet.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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