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Niigata, which are usually abruptly abandoned on finding a mountain-chain in the way with never a road over it.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

In all those cases in which an island has been separated from a continent, or raised by volcanic or coralline action from the sea, or in which a mountain-chain has been elevated in a recent geological epoch, the phaenomena of peculiar groups or even of single representative species will not exist.

On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

I wondered how any mountain-chain could have supplied such masses, and not have been utterly obliterated.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

I wondered how any mountain-chain could have supplied such masses, and not have been utterly obliterated.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Valdemosa is about twelve miles north of Palma, in the heart of the only mountain-chain of the island, which forms its western, or rather northwestern coast.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

Tourists from England, or from any part of Western Europe, may easily visit the great mountain-chain on which Prometheus was found, by crossing the Black Sea from Constantinople or from Odessa, and landing at Poti, where the Russians have constructed a railway to Tiflis, once the capital of Georgia, now the residence of the

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The bird's-eye view here presented will show the Appalachian mountain-chain, and the waters which thread their way along its gentle slopes eastward to the Atlantic basin and westward to the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

We had to go down the Volga to the Nine Feet Station below Astrakhan, embark there on the Caspian Sea, and cross over either to Baku, whence we could go by post round the mountain-chain at its southern extremity as far as Tiflis; or land at Petrofsk, and travel along the chain to Vladikavkas and the good military road across the chain to Tiflis.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

These ranges form together the great semicircular mountain-chain, known as the anti-Dacian system, through which the Danube finds a passage at the Iron

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

For the largest rivers and longest mountain-chain in the world.

First Lessons in Geography James Monteith