hummocks

Between the hummocks was a slimy, black ooze that covered the bones of more than one unfortunate animal.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

The whole ice-pack seemed one vast plain, like a bleak moorland in winter, only with little hillocks of ice here and there called hummocks, for the flat pieces of ice were all frozen hard together, and Ara wondered where "Greenland's icy mountains" had all got to.

Crusoes of the Frozen North Gordon Stables 1875

As the land rose in nine roundish points, which seamen call hummocks, this place was named Nine Hummock Bay.

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) Arthur Phillip 1776

Yet the waste has its oases, the "hummocks," where the live-oaks are hung with long festoons of grape-vines, -- where the air is sweet with woodland odors, and vocal with the song of birds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

At rare intervals the forest would fall away on either hand, opening up a wide view of cultivated fields, sweeping grandly down in long stripes of tender green to the billowy verdure of the broad savanna, where silvery-sparkling lakes lay imbedded and great round "hummocks" of dark trees uprose like islands in the grassy sea.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

He had evidently sat still a good while for him, honest man; and he got up with this, and began to pace up and down, looking at the "hummocks," which signified greater meanings to him than to his wife.

A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. 1865

The ice in this neighbourhood was covered with innumerable "hummocks," and the floes were from seven to ten feet in thickness.

Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 William Edward Parry 1822

This research, which appears in the January-February 2010 issue of Journal of Environmental Quality, reports that airborne laser scanning instruments are capable of measuring fine-scale peatland structures such as hummocks and hollows that typically measure less than four meters in size.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Masses are forced up like colossal tombstones on all sides; our sailors call them "hummocks;" here and there the broken ice displays large "holes of water."

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584