Found inside – Page 48The highest point in this eastern section is Béland mountain , with an elevation of just over 3 , 000 feet . This name is here applied to ... The former rises to a sharp , tree - covered peak with an elevation of about 2 , 985 feet . Porphyry mountain ... Found inside – Page 25In aspen glade on top of mountain idge . shield about 9 inches above top ... Top of mountain , timber E , cliffs , and sharp drop W. Subject to high winds . Found inside – Page 22The peak is a study in archetypal mountain architecture , its truncated up as sharp as needles . ” K3 was the original Survey of India designation for pyramid set against an azure sky , the top trimmed off at a slight angle with the GIV ... Found inside – Page 79The second most distinguished mountain is not Sgurr Dhomhnuill , the highest in the district ( 2,915 feet ) , although its height and sharp top at the centre of the group make it conspicuous , but rather Sgurr Giubhsachain ( 2,784 feet ) on the ... Found inside – Page 123The mountains of the Blue Ridge, and of these the Peaks of Otter, ... bit of overstatement regarding the relative heights of Sharp Top and Flat Top, ... Found inside – Page 64In this case it identifies the highest summit in the Nyambeni range near Meru . ... Emin Pasha Expedition of 1889 " The Emperor William II Mountains ” , and the highest peak was named Höhenzollern Peak . ... Turn left towards Machakos ; travel about 5 miles and turn sharp right ; about 1 mile further turn right again , through ... Found inside – Page 264Between the gorges of the Big Pigeon and Road Gap35 the top of these ridges is usually sharp and rocky , deeply indented ... The South Peak of Mt . Chapman is ita conspicuous western edge , which gives the mountain its well known " circus ... Found inside – Page 1161Height , Knoll , sharp Top of a Gilbling , Tee Goldanimer . Hill or Mountain , the Point of a Gilde , die , Zunft , Innung , a Guild , Tower , of a Spire ... Found inside – Page 309... Height of a Hill , the highest Jong Piece of Field or Ground that Top or Pinnacle of a Mountain ; ruos on in a Point , or that ends in the Cop or sharp ... Found inside – Page 268W . , nine leagues and a half from the town of Payta , is Point PARINA , a bluff , about eighty feet high , with a reef to the distance of half a mile ... with table land of a moderate height , a short distance from the beach ; and the mountain of Amatape five leagues in the interior . ... two sharp - topped hillocks ; and midway between them and the commencement of the table land , is another rise with a sharp top . Found inside – Page 35At the southwest end of this flat top a short sharp ridge rises to an altitude of 6,400 feet. The rise does not continue to the front of Point Mountain, ... Found inside – Page 149Shenandoah National Park runs along the top of the Blue Ridge of the great Appalachian Mountain system for a distance of about seventy-five miles. It is a narrow ... More than 200 singing waterfalls tumble over sharp cliffs or drop step by step into shady glens. Above the cliffs, sunny clearings dot the great rounded peaks. Found inside – Page 213He lay that night on the sands , and with the first dawn of day he went About noon he discovered a mountain so ftupendously high , that its sharp top ... Found inside – Page 74top (spot height 815m on OS maps) to descend to the low col of Am Briseadh, ... A cairn crowns the sharp top, with a stupendous outlook over crags along the ... Found inside – Page 139Gora Rusa ( Gora Soya ) ( Soya Take ) , about 4.5 miles ESE of Mys Polevogo , is a sharp prominent peak 1,011m high and is the highest mountain in the above ... Found insideThe mountain slopes are covered with forests of pine and hemlock, and many varieties of trees and plants are encountered throughout the area. Wild game was ... The two peaks are now known as Sharp Top and Flat Top. As stated by the ... Found inside – Page 13Would you ride six hours on horse back and climb over a mountain for one scrappy trout ? ... vertically as far as we could without loosening rocks , and then cut diagonally across dangerous rock slides to the top of the peak . Sharp - cornered boulders about the size of your head stretched down the slope for several hundred feet , and when a few of these rocks started rolling , the rest of the " draw " would ... Found inside – Page 94Pamola Mountain / Pearisburg PAMOLA MOUNTAIN ME PAUL C. WOLFE SHELTER VA ... One story says that while two peaks are Sharp Top and Flat Top traveling ... Found inside – Page 150At about half height a rock step almost closed the couloir , but a narrow 60 ° ice groove allowed it to be bypassed . Eventually the couloir ended at the razor - sharp summit ridge . Rock towers rose on both sides , that on the left being higher . Found inside – Page 54The mountain is so unique in its grandeur and dignity that one must be blind and stolid indeed not to feel its influence . ... the heavily cut and jagged top joins this eastern slope at a sharp angle , and stretches away to the northwest in broken ... Found inside – Page 25inhabited them . As otters prefer large comparatively deep streams , their numbers were never large , but sufficiently noteworthy to provide a name . son . Amd lmost anyone looking at Sharp Top Mountain would guess it's the tallest peak along ... Found inside – Page 414Fall Height Milepost Overall Run No . 1 Overall ... 5 - mile hike to the summit leads to the highest of three main peaks in the area , Sharp Top , Flat Top , and Harkening Hill . This trail across Flat Top Mountain levels off at 4 , 001 feet . It ' s 4 . Found inside – Page 61... cliffs, and talus slopes such as those on Sharp Top Mountain at Peaks of Otter In the same family, the audaciously colored pink corydalis (Capnoides ... Found inside – Page 1161Height , Knoll , sharp Top of a Gilbling , ree Goldarmer . Hill or Mountain , the Point of a Gilde , die , Zunft , Innung , a Guild , Tower , of a Spire . a ... Found inside – Page 309... Height of a Hili , the highest long Piece of field or Ground that Top or Pinnacle of a Mountain ; runs on in a Point , or that ends in the Cop or sharp ... Found inside – Page 120The height of our mountains has not yet been estimated with any degree of ... These peaks are Sharp Top (3,862 feet, which Jefferson called the “sharp one”) ... Found inside – Page 124The ice would then be at least 1600 feet thick and probably not less than 1800 feet in the Arm - Mersey - Forth area . Many of the highest peaks in the Cradle Mountain Reserve show glacially smoothed sides and a sharp top with abundant ... Found inside – Page 701It is not the extreme height of the mountains in Abyssinia , he observes ... nanred Gutch , rises Gutch singly , presenting its high sharp top through the ... Found inside – Page 305Over to the west is " Mount Philip," clad with forests to the top — a beautiful mountain of its kind. ... five feet in height ; their complexion is of a dirty copper colour ; their hair tangled and coarse ; and their eyes small and sharp, with inflamed lids. Found inside – Page 215Gora Rusa , about 4.5 miles ESE of Mys Polevogo , is a sharp prominent peak 1,011 m ( 3,317 st . ) high and is the highest mountain in the above range . Found inside – Page 84Bịykwajè ' mountain top ' mountain height ( piy s + kwajè ) . Biyke ' sharp mountain peak ' ( piys + ke ) . Pinkedugi ' mountain peak ' “ mountain with a ... Found inside – Page 15Sharp Top mountain , once called the South Peak of Otter , is the most dramatic of the Peaks of Otter because of its pointed summit . However , with a height of 3 , 875 feet , it is a junior partner to the massive , blunted Flat Top which is 4 , 001 ... Found inside – Page 394( sengunsy . the middle of the high mountain chain , and reaches to very high ... is denominated its ridge , and limestone often present extremely sharp ... Found inside – Page 28... mountaineers . cluster of unusually sharp peaks that shoot From the top of Mt. Lyell , in a north up abruptly from the pine - clad slopes . ... The best granite peaks typical of the Sierra , in their known of these are Unicorn and Cathedral rounded outlines and warmer colors ... eastward over range after summit , a platform a few feet in diameter and range of desert mountains ; southward past 10,933 feet ... Found inside – Page 2Sugarloaf mountain at Campbellton has an elevation of 929 feet and Mann mountain , one of the highest summits north ... Squaw cap , 10 miles southwest of Tide Head , is a sharp peak with an elevation of 1 , 585 feet , and Slate mountain , an ... Found inside – Page 33... until their peaks , if not crowned by shimmering snow , ended in dramatic crescendos of bare rock . The rock sang its epic clamor of abyss , peak , ocean promontory , ridge , and all other types of sharp mountain - top and ruffled summit ... Found inside – Page 38Seven of the surrounding mountains named above are over 10,000 feet high (Antelao, 10,890). ... As we crept up the valley the great gleam of the morning star came suddenly over the sharp mountain-top, big and brilliant, like a fire-balloon ... Found inside – Page 52have seen that bolt know all about the mountain's narrow ridge at the top . Alfred Street's guide Elijah Simons has this to say about it : “ The top of the ridge at the south rises as sharp almost as a knife . It isn't ... GRAY PEAK : 4840 feet Height 7 ... Found inside – Page 111At last we reached the top , and going around a last sharp curve , we saw before us one straight , long road down the other side a ... But mountain peaks are lonely places , and the desert is often dangerous and fraught with disappointment and ... Found inside – Page 394group Geognosy . the middle of the high mountain chain , and reaches to very high ... is denominated its ridge , and limestone often present extremely sharp ... Found inside – Page 213He lay that night on the sands , and with the first dawn of day he went About noon he discovered a mountain so ftupendously high , that its sharp top ... Found inside – Page 51Here we found the miners ' strike at its height , passing dozens of the strikers ' tent colonies nestling in the hills , and ... The descent from the top was rapid with many sharp twists and steep inclines , until we could look , almost directly down , into the city of Raton , lying in the plain below . ... for many miles over the plains which stretch away westward from the Raton Mountains , until we reached Cimarron . 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