Summit Sentence Examples

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  • There was a rest area at the summit already crowded with rid­ers.

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  • The view from the summit overlooking Table Bay is also one of much grandeur.

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  • Eight miles from Ouray, but still four miles from the summit of Red Mountain Pass, the road leveled out.

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  • It stands upon the slope and summit of the cliffs above Filey Bay, which is fringed by a fine sandy beach.

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  • With each turn in the road he expected to see the summit but was only greeted with another long uphill climb until he lost track of the numbers.

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  • Each summit is crowned by an inverted pear-shaped stone, bearing a triple cross, emblematic of the Trinity.

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  • The highest summit in the state is Tancitaro (12,660 ft.).

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  • The summit of the mountain is then covered by a whitish-grey cloud, which is being constantly forced down the northern face towards Cape Town, but never reaches the lower slopes.

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  • The true source of the Adige is in some small lakes on the summit of the Reschen Scheideck Pass (4902 ft.), and it is swollen by several other streams, near Glurns, where the roads over the Ofen and the Stelvio Passes fall in.

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  • No water is to be found on the summit.

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  • The Transandine line, designed to open railway communication between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso, was so far completed early in 1909 that on the Argentine side only the summit tunnel, 2 m.

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  • The principal summit is Tomor (7916 ft.), overhanging the town of Berat.

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  • His reward for his services was election in 1859 to the Ohio Senate as the member from Portage and Summit counties.

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  • The cheek-teeth strongly curved, forming from the base to the summit about a quarter of a circle, the concavity being directed outwards in the upper and inwards in the lower teeth.

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  • He was able to ski from the summit, but only on those slopes and trails designated blue or green, novice or intermediate.

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  • We totally enjoyed our exhilarating trek to the summit.

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  • Summit is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and will also deliver.

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  • It seems possible that the road at first led to Tusculum, that it was then prolonged to Labici, and later still became a road for through traffic; it may even have superseded the Via Latina as a route to the S.E., for, while the distance from Rome to their main junction at Ad Bivium (or to another junction at Compitum Anagninum) is practically identical, the summit level of the former is 725 ft.

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  • The rainfall on the summit is heavy, 72.14 inches a year being the average of twelve years' observations.

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  • A bank of clouds tumbled down the slope to the left of him, bathing the summit in cold dampness.

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  • Bearing this in mind, one can readily imagine how close together the equipotential surfaces must lie near the summit of a high sharp mountain peak.

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  • Priscian the grammarian speaks of him as having attained the summit of honesty and of all sciences.

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  • The summit is flat and quite bare of vegetation, but the panorama in every direction is extremely grand.

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  • His brother Domhnall (Donnell) was king of Ailech, a district in Donegal and Derry; the royal palace, the ruined masonry of which is still to be seen, being on the summit of a hill Boo ft.

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  • In the then state of knowledge, it appeared that all the species of animals and plants could be arranged in one series, in such a manner that, by insensible gradations, the mineral passed into the plant, the plant into the polype, the polype into the worm, and so, through gradually higher forms of life, to man, at the summit of the animated world.

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  • The method is simply the logical result of the fact that every existing form of life stands at the summit of a long branch of the whole tree of life.

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  • The surface of the summit (the highest point is variously stated at 3549, 35 82 and 3850 ft.) is broken into small valleys and hills, and is covered with luxuriant vegetation, its flora including the superb orchid Disa grandiflora and the well-known silver tree.

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  • Remains of villas can also be traced, and to the largest of these, which occupied the summit of the promontory, and belonged first to Marius, then to Lucullus, and then to the imperial house, probably belongs the subterranean Grotta Dragonara.

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  • The summit of the great mountain mass is occupied by Tibet, a country known by its inhabitants under the name of Bod or Bodyul.

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  • Of these ranges the summit of Mt Latmus alone reaches 4500 ft.

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  • Adjoining the town on the south-east is the beautifully-wooded Cluny Hill, a favourite public resort, carrying on its summit the tower, 70 ft.

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  • The upper fort is a quadrangular building on the summit, with only one approach, and was deemed impregnable by the Mysore princes.

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  • In May 1900, however, very rich deposits of gold and silver were discovered in Nye county, near the summit of the San Antonio Mountains, and a new era began in Nevada's mining industry.

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  • A range of low hills intervenes between Felanitx and the Mediterranean; upon one summit, the Puig de San Sebastian, stands a Moorish castle with a remarkable series of subterranean vaults.

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  • The splendid emerald at the summit, which was engraved with the arms of Gregory XIII., was restored by Napoleon and now adorns another papal tiara at Rome.

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  • Following the increase of population north of the Columbia, the territory was divided, and Washington Territory was established on the 2nd of March 1853, with the river as the southern boundary to the point where it is intersected by the forty-sixth parallel, and thence along that parallel to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, thereby including portions of the present states of Idaho and Montana.

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  • The fort occupies a conspicuous site on the summit of an abrupt rock which commands the river.

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  • When ripe, the grain is of an elongated oval form, with a few hairs at the summit.

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  • C. Janssen constructed an observatory just below the very summit.

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  • The hills are formed by a short, broad, anticlinal fold, which is flat or nearly so on its summit.

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  • To the east, on the summit of the height, is the cathedral of St Carthagh, of various dates.

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  • Proceeding thence southwards, we find in succession the Monte Vettore (8128 ft.), the Pizzo di Sevo (7945 ft.), and the two great mountain masses of the Monte Corno, commonly called the Gran Sasso d'Italia, the most lofty of all the Apennines, attaining to a height of 9560 ft., and the Monte della Maiella, its highest summit measuring 9170 ft.

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  • This volcanic tract extends across the Campagna of Rome, till it rises again in the lofty group of the Alban hills, the highest summit of which, the Monte Cavo, is 3160 ft.

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  • It is on the windward faces of the highest ground, or just beyond the summit of less dominant heights upon the leeward side, that most rain falls, and all that does not evaporate or percolate into the ground is conducted back to the sea by a route which depends only on the form of the land.

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  • The face is scored with ravines, a particularly deep cleft, known as The Gorge, affording the shortest means of access to the summit.

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  • Europe generally, the principal coal seams occur in the Upper Carboniferous, while the Lower Carboniferous is mainly composed of marine deposits, with, however, the first bed of coal near its summit.

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  • Another method, which was introduced into America from Europe about 1890, is that of the summit or " hump."

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  • The plateau-like summit, which originally could be reached only from the south by a steep and narrow path, was rendered almost impregnable to Indian attack by a sheer cliff on the river side of the hill, a deep ravine along its eastern base and steep declivities on the other sides.

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  • On the summit La Salle built store-houses and log huts, which he surrounded by intrenchments and a log palisade.

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  • But when it grows in dense woods, where the lower branches decay and drop off early, only a small head of foliage remaining at the tapering summit, its stem, though frequently of great height, is rarely more than 11 or 2 ft.

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  • He also found that the polarity which minerals receive from heat has a relation to the secondary forms of their crystals - the tourmaline, for example, having its resinous pole at the summit of the crystal which has three faces.

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  • The Acropolis, enclosing venerated temples, crowned the summit of the first hill, where the Seraglio stands.

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  • The Mese linked together the great fora of the city, - the Augustalon on the south of St Sophia, the forum of Constantine on the summit of the 2nd hill, the forum of Theodosius I.

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  • The most striking summit in the neighbourhood of the city is that of Lycabettus, on the north-eastern side; and the variety is still further increased by the continuation of the ridge which it forms for some distance northwards through the plain.

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  • The latter is thick and short, and the wall of the sporangium, which opens by a median slit, has a group of thick-walled cells at the summit, forming the annulus.

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  • A winding ascent led to the summit of the tower, where there was a chapel, containing, according to Herodotus, a couch and golden table (for the showbread), but no image.

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  • A fine view is seen from the summit over the plain and the Pontic ranges to the north.

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  • A small cairn marks the nominal summit of the hill.

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  • The actual highest summit is wholly French and is the loftiest peak in the Alps, and in Europe also, if certain peaks in the Caucasus be excluded.

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  • The actual position of sea-level lies so near the summit of the crust-heap that the varied relief of the upper portion leads to the formation of a complicated coast- The con- line and a great number of detached portions of land.

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  • In the desert he was worshipped as an atmospheric deity, who manifested himself in thunder and lightning, whose abode was in the sky, whose sanctuary was on the mountain summit of Horeb-Sinai, and whose movable palladium was the ark of the covenant.

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  • In the centre is the smaller, almost detached mass of Psiloriti (`TI,GtXopaTtov, ancient Ida), culminating in Stavros (8193 ft.), the highest summit in the island.

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  • It stands on the summit of a high conical hill.

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  • Three roads lead to Athens from the Boeotian frontier over the intervening mountain barrier - the easternmost over Parnes, from Delium and Oropus by Decelea, which was the usual route of the invading Lacedaemonians during the Peloponnesian War; the westernmost over Cithaeron, by the pass of Dryoscephalae, or the "Oakheads," leading from Thebes by Plataea to Eleusis, and so to Athens, which we hear of in connexion with the battle of Plataea, and with the escape of the Plataeans at the time of the siege of that city in the Peloponnesian War; the third, midway between the two, by the pass of Phyle, near the summit of which, on a rugged height overlooking the Athenian plain, is the fort occupied by Thrasybulus in the days of the Thirty Tyrants.

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  • Its elevation as at present determined by trigonometrical observation is 2 9, 002 ft., but it is possible that further investigation into the value of refraction at such altitudes will result in placing the summit even higher.

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  • Boulogne occupies the summit and slopes of a ridge of hills skirting the right bank of the Liane; the industrial quarter of Capecure extends along the opposite bank, and is reached by two bridges, while the river is also crossed by a double railway viaduct.

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  • At Tuttlingen it contracts and the hills crowd close to the banks, while ruins of castles crown almost every possible summit.

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  • The promenades and drives are extensive, and there is an inclined tramway leading from summit to foot of the South Cliff.

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  • The highest summit in the province is the Monte Adi (4931 ft.).

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  • The town of Monaco occupies the level summit of a rocky headland, rising about 200 ft.

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  • When the rings are coloured symmetrically with respect to two perpendicular lines the acute bisectrix and the plane of the optic axes are the same for all frequencies, and the colour for which the separation of the axes is the least is that on the concave side of the summit of the hyperbolic brushes.

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  • The mean elevation, estimated by Elie de Beaumont at 1500 metres (4900 ft.), has been sensibly diminished by the addition of that zone to the system, and it must now be placed at only 1200 metres (3930 ft.) for the range as a whole; so important a part is played by the above-mentioned plateaux of small elevation in a chain whose highest summit reaches 11,168 ft., while the passes show a greater altitude than those of the Alps.

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  • Phallic emblems, for averting evil, were plentiful; the summit of the tomb of Alyattes is crowned with an enormous one of stone, about 9 ft.

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  • The walls of Lysimachus crossed the summit of this hill, and the acropolis occupied the top of Pagus.

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  • On the summit of a hill stands a column commemorating the duke.

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  • Sometimes, especially towards the summit of a dichasium, owing to the exhaustion of the growing power of the plant, only one of the bracts gives origin to a new axis, the other remaining empty; thus the inflorescence becomes unilateral, and further development is arrested.

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  • The filament is usually, as its name imports, filiform or threadlike, and cylindrical, or slightly tapering towards its summit.

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  • It may hang from an apicilar placenta at the summit of the ovary, its apex being directed downwards, and is inverted or pendulous, as in Hippuris vulgaris; or from a parietal placenta near the summit, and then is suspended, as in Daphne Mezereum, Polygalaceae and Euphorbiaceae.

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  • Sometimes a long funicle arises from a basal placenta, reaches the summit of the ovary, and there bending over suspends the ovule, as in Armeria (sea-pink); at other times the hilum appears to be in the middle, and the ovule becomes horizontal.

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  • The city is built on the flat summit of a rocky hill, which rises abruptly in the midst of a veritable wilderness; a brown, arid, treeless table-land, strewn with immense grey boulders, and shut in by lofty mountains.

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  • On the summit of a fire-girt hill Sigurd found the Valkyrie Brunhild in an enchanted sleep, and ravished by her beauty awakened her; they plighted their troth to each other and, next morning, Sigurd left her to set out once more on his journey.

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  • It is covered with pure gold from base to summit, and once in every generation this gold is renewed by public subscription.

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  • The major part belongs to the great North-German plain, but the western and south-western districts include parts of the Harz, with the Brocken, its highest summit, and the Thuringian Forest.

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  • Each year hundreds of hearty souls race from Ouray at 7,800 feet, on paths and Jeep roads, over loose rock and boulders, more than 17 miles to Telluride at 8,100 feet, via the 13,120 foot summit of Imogene Pass.

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  • It was mid-afternoon when the pair had just finished skiing "See Forever" from the summit, but Ryland was anxious to return to his son.

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  • We are implementing the decisions taken at the Prague NATO Summit in a highly committed way in the field of strategic airlift.

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  • Cross the col then make the steep ascent NW then N to the summit of Red Pike.

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  • From their high camp at 4,900m the team of eight roped up for their succesful summit ascent.

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  • A full report of the summit will published this autumn.

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  • Last year's Lisbon summit took place in the context of a relatively benign economic climate.

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  • Later, on Cotopaxi, just Jude and Craig opted to go to the hut, for the final summit bid.

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  • To find the summit shelter in a full blown blizzard is very reassuring.

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  • Beyond, climb the wide grassy path, ascending through dense bracken, to arrive at the tall cairn on the summit.

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  • While there are higher mountains, by virtue of the equatorial bulge, Chimborazo summit is the point on earth nearest the sun.

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  • Recently, I caught wind of a charity group planning to erect a new memorial cairn on the summit.

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  • It is situated on the summit of the Great Dividing Range, and is the centre of the rich pastoral and agricultural district of Darling Downs.

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  • It is a noble portal, erected in 1460, apparently from designs by Fra Giocondo, with the lion of St Mark in the attic. The statuary, with Sta Giustina on the summit of the tympanum, was added in 1571 and 1578.

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  • It is a barren rock, on the summit of which stands a lighthouse visible at night for 21 m.

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  • The northern shore of the lake is irregular and more rugged and picturesque than the other shores, the summit of the highest peak being about 1400 ft.

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  • It is commonly said to take its origin in some small lakes a little south of the summit plateau of the Mont Genevre Pass.

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  • The punishment of the overhanging rock refers to the dangerous position of the town of Tantalis below the summit of Mount Sipylus.

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  • In the centre of the plain extends from north-east to south-west a series of low heights, now known as Turcovuni, culminating towards the south in the sharply pointed Lycabettus (1112 ft.), now called Hagios Georgios from the monastery which crowns its summit.

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  • Separated from Lycabettus by a depression to the south-west, through which flows a brook, now a covered drain (probably to be identified with the Eridanus), stands the remarkable oblong rocky mass of the Acropolis (512 ft.), rising precipitously on all sides except the western; its summit was partially levelled in prehistoric times, and the flat area was subsequently enlarged by further cutting and by means of retaining walls.

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  • The entire area of the summit was now thoroughly explored, the excavations being carried down to the surface of the rock, which on the southern side was found to slope outwards to a depth of about 45 ft.

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  • The fine walls of the south and east sides were built by Cimon after the victory of the Eurymedon, 468 B.C.; they extend considerably beyond the old Pelasgic circuit, the intervening space being filled up with earth and the debris of the ruined buildings so as to increase the level space of the summit.

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  • On the summit of the Golis range the cedars form forests.

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  • The fortified station of Dinas occupies the summit of a hill about 22 m.

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  • The summit is crowned by a chapel dedicated to St Lawrence, which once also served as a traveller's shelter.

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  • Through its great flood-plain the Mississippi river winds upon the summit of a ridge formed by its own deposits.

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  • This is doubtless the explanation of a " pretty optical phenomenon, seen in Switzerland, when the sun rises from behind distant trees standing on the summit of a mountain."

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  • This branch consists of parallel chains enclosing elevated valleys, in one of which lies the town of Merida at the height of 5410 ft., overlooked by the highest summit of the chain (Picacho de la Sierra, 15,420 ft.).

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  • Here is Meintjes Kop, with a broad natural shelf midway below the summit.

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  • Not even deigning to notice the retreating columns, apparently too without escort, the batteries pressed forward till they reached the summit of the ridge trending eastward from Chlum towards the Elbe, whence the whole interior of the Austrian position was disclosed to them, and then they opened fire upon the Austrian reserves which lay below them in solid masses of army corps.

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  • It is square below, with an octagonal summit of a slightly later period.

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  • After a fresh reorganization during the night an attempt was yet again made on the gth to win the mountain, and that day some British and Indian troops actually fought their way on to a commanding summit from which the Narrows could be seen, only, however, speedily to be driven off again.

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  • The town is laid out in rectangular blocks at the foot of low hills, from the summit of which (as in Queen's Gardens) a splendid panorama is seen, including the snow-clad Mount Ruapehu to the north-east.

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  • In nearly all the other Pleistocene forms these teeth were subcylindrical in shape, with the summit of the crown (except sometimes in the first pair) forming a cup-like depression; enamel being in all cases absent.

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  • In 729 B.C. the summit of his ambition was attained, and he was invested with the sovereignty of Asia in the holy city of Babylon.

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  • The greater part drains to the Mediterranean, from which the land rises gradually to the summit of the Tih plateau.

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  • On the summit of the falk there is generally a mound known as tas or barkhus composed of white sand which stands out conspicuously against the deep red of the surrounding deserts; the exterior slopes are comparatively gentle.

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  • From the summit, to which there is a funicular railway, there is a magnificent view, celebrated by Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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  • Its summit is frequently draped with snow, and its broken-down crater contains a lake.

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  • Passing the summit of that range, it rushes down as a cool and dry wind on the Pacific slopes beyond.

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  • From Innsbruck to the summit of the pass is a distance by rail of 25 m.

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  • On this barren summit lay a wide flat depression, surrounded with rugged walls of rock, which were festooned with wild vines.

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  • On an isolated rock between the town and the river stands a ruined castle, the Diz-i-siyah (black castle), the residence of the governor of the district (then called Samha) in the middle ages, and, with some modern additions, one of them consisting of rooms on the summit, called Felek ul aflak (heaven of heavens), the residence of the governors of Luristan in the beginning of the 19th century.

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  • On the summit of Ontake are eight large and several small craters, and there also may be seen displays of trance and divine possession, such as are described by Mr Percival Lowell in Occult Japan (1895).

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  • Within the period of Japans written history several eruptions are recorded the last having been in 1707, when the whole summit burst into flame, rocks were shattered, ashes fell to a depth of several inches even in Yedo (TOkyO), 60 m.

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  • A little steam still issues from several smaller cones on the summit of the ridge, as well as from one, called Eniwa, on the northern side.

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  • Has both a summit and a lateral crater, which are apparently connected and perpetually emitting steam.

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  • A triple-peaked volcano in the solfatara stage, extinct at the summit, but displaying considerable activity at its base in the form of numerous fumaroles and boiling sulilhur springs.

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  • At the summit are two deep craters, the southern of which emits steam.

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  • To the south of the Kinzig the mean height is 3100 ft., and the loftiest summit, the Feldberg, reaches about 4898 ft., while to the north the mean height is only 2100 ft., and the Belchen, the culminating point of the whole, does not exceed 4480 ft.

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  • The summit of Slieve Gullion is crowned by a large cairn, which forms the roof of a singular cavern of artificial construction, probably an early burial-place.

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  • It is situated on the western border of the fertile plain of Burgundy, at the foot of Mont Afrique, the north-eastern summit of the Cote d'Or range, and at the confluence of the Ouche and the Suzon; it also has a port on the canal of Burgundy.

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  • Pollination having been effected, and the pollen-grain having reached the stigma in angio sperms or the summit of the nucellus in mnos erms P gY P it is detained there, and the viscid secretion from the glands of the stigma in the former case, or from the nucellus in the latter, induce the protrusion of the intine as a pollen-tube through the pores of the grain.

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  • The view from the summit extends northward as far as the Grampians, with occasional glimpses of Ben Nevis; westward to Jura in the Atlantic; south-westward to Arran in the Firth of Clyde; southward to Tinto Hill, the Lowthers and Cairnsmore; and eastward to Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's Seat.

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  • The summit C of the branch BCD occurs at a percentage exactly corresponding to the formula Hg 2 T1.

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  • Sometimes a freezing-point curve contains more than one intermediate summit, so that more than one compound is indicated.

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  • South from them is the pass (8351 ft.) which leads from Baalbek to Tripoli; the great mountain amphitheatre on the west side of its summit is remarkable.

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  • The cavalry of his left wing stood fast, west of Doon Hill, as a pivot of manoeuvre, the northern face of Doon (where the ground rises from the burn at an average slope of fifteen degrees and is even steeper near the summit) he left unoccupied.

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  • Scanty remains of walling and of buildings of the Roman period exist above ground; traces of a large rectangular platform were found in 1876, and part of the thermae in 1829; it occupied the summit of a hill defended by ravines, called Piano di Civita.

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  • On the summit of the promontory are extensive remains of a Saracenic castle.

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  • We are equally unfortunate in regard to Strabo's splendid marble Sisyphaeum just below the summit.

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  • The bones of the skeleton generally more resemble those of the Indian elephant than of any other species, but the skull differs in the narrower summit, narrower temporal fossae, and more prolonged incisive sheaths, supporting the roots of the enormous tusks.

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  • Reaching its summit they from Gorze towards Vionville, whence he could overlook the whole country to the north and west, had met von Rheinbaben (commanding the 5th cavalry division) and had seen the surprise of the French camps.

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  • Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.

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  • At the summit of this crown the small rosy-pink flowers are produced, half protruding from the mass of wool, and these are succeeded by small red berries.

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  • She had now reached the summit of her ambition, and at first acted as joint-ruler with Tiberius.

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  • Old Syra, on a conical hill behind the port town, is an interesting place, with its old Roman Catholic church of St George's still crowning the summit.

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  • Nevertheless, the greatest depths of the ocean below sea-level and the greatest heights of the land above it are of the same order of magnitude, the summit of Mount Everest rising to 29,000 ft.

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  • The summit of the college tower is 110 ft.

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  • The summit is covered with snow for the greater part of the year.

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  • Seen from the Adriatic, Monte Corno, as it is someti, mes called, from its resemblance to a horn, affords a magnificent spectacle; the Alpine region beneath its summit is still the home of the wild boar, and here and there are dense woods of beech and pine.

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  • The view from the summit extends to the Tyrrhenian Sea on the west and the mountains of Dalmatia on the east in clear weather.

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  • The Owen Stanley range - its highest summit, named by Huxley in 1850 Mount Owen Stanley, 13,120 ft.

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  • But in the derivant valley peneplains developed in the present cycle of denudation, and there are residual summits also; in the Connecticut Valley trap ridges, of which Mt Tom and Mt Holyoke are the best examples; at Mt Holyoke, lava necks; occasionally in the lowlands, ridges of resistant sandstone, like Deerfield Mountain near Northampton; in the Berkshire Valley, summits of resistant schists, like Greylock, the highest summit in the state.

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  • It has secured as public reservations the summit and sides of Greylock (3535 ft.) in the north-west corner of the state, and of Wachusett (2108 ft.) near the centre.

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  • Auch is built on the summit and sides of a hill at the foot of which flow the yellow waters of the Gers.

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  • On the summit of this pencil of rock there are five or six acres of ground; and on them, in A.D.

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  • The Bermudas were formerly much more extensive than at present, and they may possibly stand upon the summit of a hidden volcano.

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  • In Westland the Miocene includes the Moutere gravels, which rest on the summit of Mount Greenland, 4900 ft.

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  • On the summit of the mound were large phalli of stone.

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  • Climbing the high mountain that overhangs the town, he established on the summit the monastery with which his name has ever since been associated, and which for centuries was a chief centre of religious life for western Europe.

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  • The west and south-west half of Saxony is more or less occupied by the ramifications and subsidiary groups of this range, one of which is known from its position as the Central Saxon chain, and another lower group still farther north as the Oschatz group. The south-east angle of Saxony is occupied by the mountains of Upper Lusatia (highest summit 2600 ft.), which form the link between the Erzgebirge and Riesengebirge in the great Sudetic chain.

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  • The highest summit attains a height of 1830 ft.; but the more interesting peaks, as the Lilienstein, Kiinigstein and the Bastei, are lower.

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  • The summit of the first stage was reached by a staircase on the S.E.

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  • P. Peters (1890) both report having seen it from the summit of Moghair.

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  • On the summit, approached by a well-preserved flight of steps, are the remains of a palace of the Mycenaean age, similar to that found at Tiryns, though not so complicated or extensive.

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  • Its territory was coterminous with that of Bononia and Regium, as its diocese is now, and to the south it seems to have extended to the summit of the Apennines.

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  • The city extends along the level summit of the cliffs from above the Falls to some 3 m.

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  • The island is of volcanic formation and mountainous, the highest summit being Beerenberg in the north (8350 ft.).

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  • On the summit of Osengal Hill, about a mile to the west of the town, a graveyard of early Saxon settlers was discovered during the cutting of the railway.

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  • The bluffs approach the Missouri more closely at this point than elsewhere in the state, so that little more than manufacturing establishments and business blocks are built on the bottom lands, and the residences are spread over the slope and summit of the bluffs.

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  • From Irazu (11,200), the culminating point of the range, both oceans and the whole of Costa Rica are visible; its altitude exceeds that of Aneto, the highest point in the Pyrenees, but so gradual is its acclivity that the summit can easily be reached by a man on horseback.

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  • On the summit is a meteorological station.

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  • It forms the main watershed between the Pacific and Atlantic river systems. Its summit is not a well-defined crest, but is often rounded or flattened into a table-land.

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  • When the summit is reached, the traveller is tempted to ask, Where are the mountains?

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  • In this way Mt Whitney (14,502 ft.) came to be the highest summit in the United States (excluding Alaska).

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  • From the summit of any of the higher hills one sees that the region is really a somewhat dissected plain, for all the hills rise to about the same level with a uniform skyline at the horizon.

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  • It is the highest brick edifice in Europe, its summit being 510 ft.

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  • The peak rises like a pyramid, with a steep summit of white marble, to a height of 6350 ft., and can be seen at sunset from the plain of Troy on the east, and the slopes of Olympus on the west.

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  • Cinder cones are the predominant type of craters on both Mauna Kea and the Kohala Mountains, and they are also numerous on the upper slopes of Mauna Hualalai; but the more typically Hawaiian pit or engulfment craters also abound on Mauna Hualalai and Mokuaweoweo, crowning the summit of Mauna Loa, as well as Kilauea, to the S.E.

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  • Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

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  • This is a fine open space of about 240 acres, including in its bounds the summit of Hampstead Hill.

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  • Yet the stone has not fallen from the summit of the holy hill, and the Colossus of the German Empire has not crumbled into dust, which is more than can be said for the pope's inspirations, which led him to expect the sudden withdrawal of the Italians from Rome, and a solution of the Roman question in the sense inspired by his visionary policy.

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  • The latter was built with ten inclined planes, five on each side of the summit at Blair's Gap and cars were drawn up these by stationary engines.

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  • On the summit of this hill, besides a monument (1836) to Lord de Dunstanville and a small ancient castle, various prehistoric remains are traceable.

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  • In the interior, Ward Hill (1564 ft.) is the loftiest summit in either the Orkneys or Shetlands.

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  • The summit of Taragarh hill, overhanging Ajmere, is crowned by a fort, the lofty thick battlements of which run along its brow and enclose the table-land.

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  • It is formed chiefly of slates, grits and porphyries of the Cambrian and Silurian systems. It consists of five "ribs" converging at the summit, 3560 ft.

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  • A rack-and-pinion railway (opened in 1897) ascends from Llanberis to the summit of the mountain (44 m.).

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  • At the annual festival of Apollo a criminal was obliged to plunge from the summit into the sea, where, however, an effort was made to pick him up; and it was by the same heroic leap that Sappho and Artemisia, daughter of Lygdamis, are said to have ended their lives.

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  • The summit of this column is that which formerly stood at Seven Dials, London.

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  • Thence the direction taken is north as far as the eastern summit (11,693 ft.) of the Levanna, the watershed rising in a series of snowy peaks, though the loftiest point of the region, the Pointe de Charbonel (12,336 ft.), stands a little to the west.

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  • But, though it rises in a number of lofty peaks, such as the Mont Velan (12,353 ft.), the Matterhorn (14,782 ft.), the Lyskamm (14,889 ft.), the Nord End of Monte Rosa (15,132 ft.), and the Weissmies (13,226 ft.), yet many of the highest points of the region, such as the Grand Combin (14,164 ft.), the Dent Blanche (14,318 ft.), the Weisshorn (14,804 ft.), the true summit or Dufourspitze (15,217 ft.) of Monte Rosa itself, and the Dom (14,942 ft.), all rise on its northern slope and not on the main watershed.

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  • From the Maloja Pass the main watershed dips to the southeast for a short distance, and then runs eastwards and nearly over the highest summit of the Bernina group, the Piz Bernina (13,304 ft.), to the Bernina Pass.

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  • The most singular, and probably the loftiest, lake in the Alps is the ever-frozen tarn that forms the summit of the Roccia Viva (11,976 ft.) in the Eastern Graians.

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  • A few miles farther north these same beds rise again to the surface at the summit of an anticlinal which runs parallel to the chain.

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  • On the summit of the hill (2471 ft.), nearly a mile from the town, stood the ancient citadel, the site of which is now occupied by a few poor houses (Castel San Pietro) and a ruined medieval castle of the Colonna.

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  • Again, at the summit of the Carboniferous series, both the rocks and their fossil contents merge gradually into those of the succeeding Permian system, as in Russia, Bohemia, the Saar region and Texas.

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  • Bola and Pedum were probably in the same neighbourhood, Labici on an outlying summit (Monte Compatri) of the Alban Hills below Tusculum, and Corbio (probably at Rocca Priora) on a rocky summit east of the same city.

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  • Corniculum, farther west, stood on the summit of one of three conical hills that rise abruptly out of the plain at the distance of a few miles from Monte Gennaro, the nearest of the Apennines, and which were thence known as the Montes Corniculani.

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  • The cities of the Latin league continued to hold general meetings or assemblies from time to time at the grove of the Aqua Ferentina, a sanctuary at the foot of the Alban Hills, perhaps in a valley below Marino, while they had also a common place of worship on the summit of the Alban Mount (Monte Cavo), where stood the celebrated temple of Jupiter Latiaris.

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  • An incline railway, originally used to transport coal from the mines to the river and named the "Switch-Back," now carries tourists up the steep slopes of Mount Pisgah and Mount Jefferson, to Summit Hill, a rich anthracite coal region, with a famous "burning mine," which has been on fire since 1832, and then back.

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  • In the north-east, between the Lot and its tributary the Truyere, lies the lonely pastoral plateau of the Viadene, dominated by the volcanic mountains of Aubrac, which form the north-eastern limit of the department and include its highest summit (4760 ft.).

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  • A hole "just large enough for a man's body" (Stanley), immediately below the summit of Jebel Musa, is still pointed out by tradition as the cave of Elijah.

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  • The plateau is bounded on the north by the Harz, an isolated group of mountains, rich in minerals, with its highest elevation in the bare summit of the Brocken (3747 ft-).

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  • Bonifacio, which overlooks the straits of that name separating Corsica from Sardinia, occupies a remarkable situation on the summit of a peninsula of white calcareous rock, extending parallel to the coast and enclosing a narrow and secure harbour.

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  • The Cite occupies the summit of an abrupt and isolated hill on the right bank of the river.

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  • Auroral Meridian.-It is a common belief that the summit of an auroral arc is to be looked for in the observer's magnetic meridian.

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  • One end only, for example, may appear to move, as if rotating round the other; or the two ends may move in opposite directions, as if the arc were rotating about a vertical axis through its summit.

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  • Heights have been calculated in various less direct ways, by observing for instance the angular altitude of the summit of an arc and the angular interval between its extremities, and then making some assumption such as that the portion visible to an observer may be treated as a circle whose centre lies over the so-called auroral pole.

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  • Thus a bright auroral ray may seem red towards the foot and green at its summit, with yellow intervening.

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  • In the north-west the Upper Guinea mountains send their eastern spurs across the boundary, and from a volcanic rift, which runs southwest to north-east, the Cameroon peak towers up, its summit 13,370 ft.

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  • On the principal summit there are a group of craters.

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  • The ascent of the Cameroon mountain was first attempted by Joseph Merrick of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1847; but it was not till 186r that the summit was gained, when the ascent was made by Sir Richard Burton, Gustav Mann, a noted botanist, and Senor Calvo.

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  • From the south-east the summit was reached by Mary Kingsley in 1895.

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  • The principal characteristics of this second period are the magnificent portals, rising sometimes, as in the mosque of sultan Hasan, to 80 or 90 ft., with elaborate stalactite vaulting at the top, and the deep stalactite cornices which crown the summit of the building.

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  • Tombs of Mahommedan saints are also numerous, and are often placed on the summit of the cliffs overlooking the Nile.

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  • The few who regained the summit of the citadel experienced the same fate as the rest, for no quarter was given.

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  • It is the second highest summit in Mexico, its shapely, snow-covered cone rising to a height of 17,876 ft., or 438 ft.

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  • It is believed that Diego de Ordaz was the first European to reach the summit of Popocatepetl, though no proof of this remains further than that Cortes sent a party of ten men in 1519 to ascend a burning mountain.

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  • Other ascents were made in 1834, 1848 and subsequent years, members of the Mexican geological survey spending two days on the summit in 1895.

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  • The Villa de los Martires (Martyrs' Villa), on the summit of Monte Mauror,commemorates by its name the Christian slaves who were employed to build the Alhambra, and confined here in subterranean cells.

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  • There are also a chapel, a gymnasium, a hospital, and on the summit of Mount Jefferson Hill, a mile south-west of the campus, is the M ` Cormick Observatory.

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  • Their highest summit north of the Usk, on the eastern side, where they are known as the Black Mountains, or sometimes the Black Forest Mountains, is Pen y Gader (2624 ft.) between Talgarth and Llanthony, and on the south-west the twin peaks of the Mynydd Du ("Black Mountain") or the so-called Carmarthenshire Vans or Beacons, only the higher of which, Fan Brycheiniog (2632 ft.), is, however, in Breconshire; while the centre of the crescent is occupied by the masses of the Brecknockshire Beacons or Vans (often called the Beacons simply), the highest point of which, Pen y Fan, formerly also known as Cadair Arthur, or Arthur's Chair, attains an altitude of 2910 ft.

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  • A temple of Zeus was excavated on a terrace of the acropolis; the great temple of Apollo crowned the summit of the hill.

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  • The town lies in a bare district on the slope and flat summit of an abrupt elevation, higher ground rising to the north and south across the river.

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  • The highest summit in the south of Scotland - Merrick (2764 ft.) - consists of Silurian strata much altered by proximity to the granite, while the rest of the more prominent heights (all in Kirkcudbrightshire) - Rinns of Kells (2668 ft.), Cairnsmuir of Carsphairn (2612), and Cairnsmore of Fleet (2331) - are formed of granite.

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  • This crest, attacked on each front and along the summit, is lowered with comparative rapidity, until merely a low col or pass may separate the heads of the two glens.

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  • The monasteries stand on the summit of these pinnacles; they are accessible only by aid of rope and net worked by a windlass from the top, or by a series of almost perpendicular ladders climbing the cliff.

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  • It is pleasantly situated in a hilly district to the east of Clun Forest, climbing the flank and occupying the summit of an eminence.

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  • Among the secular buildings the first place is taken by the royal palace in Buda, which, together with the old fortress, crowns the summit of a hill, and forms the nucleus of the town.

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  • The western chain has the distinction of having the highest summit, the eastern the greatest number of high summits and the highest average elevation.

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  • Sincholagua and Ruminagui are the next two peaks, going southward, and then the unrivalled cone of Cotopaxi - the highest active volcano in the world - from whose summit smoke curls upward unceasingly.

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  • Its summit comprises a group of eight snow-clad peaks, and its crater is surrounded by a steep and jagged wall of rocks.

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  • There is a tradition that this mountain was once higher than Chimborazo, but a series of eruptions caused the cone to fall in and reduced its summit to its present altitude and broken appearance.

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  • Turning to the Cordillera Occidental and taking the principal peaks in order from south to north, the first to claim attention is Chimborazo (from Chimpu-raza, " mountain of snow "), the highest summit of Ecuador, and once believed to be the culminating point of the Andes.

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  • Among the earlier explorers to reach its summit were Bouger and La Condamine, Humboldt and Bonpland, and Jose Caldas, the Granadian naturalist.

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  • Its summit comprises three groups of rocky peaks, of which the most westerly, Rucu-Pichincha (Old Pichincha), contains the crater, a funnelshaped basin 2460 ft.

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  • For instance, in 1880 Whymper found permanent snow on Cotocachi at 14,500 ft., while near by Imbabura was bare to its summit (15,033 ft.); Antisana was permanently covered at 16,000 ft., and near by Sara-Urcu, which is drenched with rains and mists from the Amazon valley all the year round, at 14,000 ft.; Sincholagua had large beds of permanent snow at 15,300 ft., Cotopaxi was permanently covered at 15,500 ft.

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  • On the summit was the Roman village, which belonged to the province of the Alpes Cottiae.

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  • On the summit of the hillock, surrounded by a wall with three gates, lie the remains of the city.

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  • It is picturesquely situated at the foot of the Green Mountains, and the summit of the neighbouring Mt.

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  • At the head of Lake Placid stands Whiteface Mountain, from whose summit one of the finest views of the Adirondacks may be obtained.

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  • The road thence went on to Nuceria (whence a branch road ran to Septempeda and thence either to Ancona or to Tolentinum and Urbs Salvia) and Helvillum, and then crossed the main ridge of the Apennines, a temple of Jupiter Apenninus standing at the summit of the pass.

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  • He noticed that at the summit the candle gave a very poor light, and was thereby led to investigate the effect produced on luminous flames by varying the pressure of the atmosphere in which they are burning.

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  • It lies in a hilly district by and above the river Kensey, an affluent of the Tamar, the houses standing picturesquely on the southern slope of the narrow valley, with the keep of the ancient castle crowning the summit.

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  • The plant is monoecious, producing the staminate (male) flowers in a large feathery panicle at the summit, and the (female) dense spikes of flowers, or " cobs," in the axils of the leaves below, the long pink styles hanging out like a silken tassel.

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  • The mass of styles from the whole spike is pendulous from the summit of the sheaths, as in fig.

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  • The cathedral, constructed in 1074 at the summit of the hill, is externally plain; it has a fine Gothic interior, somewhat spoilt by restoration, with a good Cosmati pavement, and a canopy and paschal candlestick in the same style.

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  • From Bamian it passes over the central mountain chain to Kabul either by the well-known passes of Irak (marking the water-divide of the Koh-i-Baba) and of Unai (marking the summit of the Sanglakh, a branch of the Hindu Kush), or else, turning eastwards, it crosses into the Ghorband valley by the Shibar, a pass which is considerably lower than the Irak and is very seldom snowbound.

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  • Eagle Rock (about 650 ft.), on the summit of First Mountain, commands a splendid view.

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  • A way was found to the summit of the Plateau by the Axel Heiberg glacier which was negotiated by the dogs with much difficulty.

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  • Erebus, reaching the summit on the 11th, the second occasion of its ascent.

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  • The highest summit in the island is in the south-western mass of hills, the Piton de la Riviere Noire, which is 2711 ft.

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  • The Crusaders' castle of Subeibeh, one of the finest in Palestine, occupies the summit of a conical hill above the village.

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  • Instead of obeying he pitched his camp near the summit of a mountain overlooking Monterey, fortified his position, and raised the United States flag.

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  • No crater now exists at the summit of either, but well-formed parasitic cones occur upon their flanks.

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  • The next in importance is known as the Prophet Elias, from the large convent of that name on its summit.

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  • Its source is on the Jagdberg, a summit of the Rothaar Mountains, in the cellar of a house (Lahnhof), at an elevation of 1975 ft.

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  • Several small glaciers still remain about the base of Cloud Peak, the highest summit in the range (13,165 ft.).

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  • Limestone occurs in thick formations near Lava Creek, and in the valley of the East Fork of the Yellowstone river; also near the summit of the Owl Creek range, and in the Wind River range.

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  • At the base is the so-called "blue clay" (really greenish) with ferruginous sandstones and with a fucoidal sandstone at its summit.

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  • It is famous in Greek mythology; the giants are said to have piled it on Ossa in order to scale Olympus, the abode of the gods; it was the home of the centaurs, especially of Chiron, who had a cave near its summit, and educated many youthful heroes; the ship "Argo" was built from its pine-woods.

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  • On its summit was an altar of Zeus Actaeus, in whose honour an annual festival was held in the dog-days, and worshippers clad themselves in skins.

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  • The most beautiful and attractive part of the island is the peninsula of Jasmund, which terminates to the north in the Stubbenkammer (Slavonic for "rock steps"), a sheer chalk cliff, the summit of which, the Kbnigsstuhl, is 420 ft.

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  • Marco to the S.; on the summit of it are the remains of a nuraghe.

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  • Water comes from karez or underground channels and streams from Varak, fed from the Sikhe Lake, an ancient reservoir which preserves the snow waters on the summit of the mountain.

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  • Whitby is beautifully situated at the mouth and on both banks of the River Esk; the old town of narrow streets and picturesque houses standing on the steep slopes above the river, while the modern residential quarter is mainly on the summit of West Cliff.

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  • The upper town is built on the acclivities and summit of a rock which rises abruptly from the river to the height of 180 ft., and gives the town a very picturesque appearance.

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  • A few miles to the north and north-east of the Mount of the Holy Cross are Red Mountain (13,333, Wheeler), in Eagle county, Torrey Peak (1 4,33 6, Hayden) and Gray's Peak (14341, Hayden), in Summit county, Mt.

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  • His work also is commemorated by a famous summit of the Rockies.

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  • It stands partly on level ground, partly on a declivity, and above it rises a precipitous trachytic rock (400 ft.) on the summit of which are the ruins of an ancient castle.

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  • Extensive plateaus (1500-1750 ft.), into which Lake Enare, or Inari, and the valleys of its tributaries are deeply sunk, and which take the character of a mountain region in the Saariselka (highest summit, 2360 ft.), occupy the remainder of Lapland.

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  • Another most imposing structure is the theatre, dating from the time of the emperor Hadrian and built against a hill from the summit of which a colossal figure of the Virgin commands the town.

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  • A notable example is the mesa of Acoma, in Valencia county, capped with volcanic rocks; upon its summit, about 350 ft.

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  • Upon its summit, according to Indian tradition, once stood the village of Acoma, but while the inhabitants were tending their crops in the plains a powerful earth movement threw down the rocky ladder by which alone the summit could be reached.

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  • Many routes to the summit are now known, but that usually taken (from the Payer Club hut, easily accessible from either Sulden or Trafoi) from the north is daily traversed in summer and offers no difficulties to moderately experienced walkers.

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  • From the summit of the hill rises Arundel Castle, which guarded the passage along the river through the hills.

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  • The highest summit is known at the present day as Mount Troddos, and attains an elevation of 6406 ft.

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  • It is inferior in elevation to the southern range, its highest summit (Buffavento) attaining only 3135 ft., while in the eastern portion the elevation rarely exceeds 2000 ft.

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  • There are on the summit of the hill the remains of an old castle, and a monument erected in 1875 to Prince Bismarck, with an inscription taken from one of his speeches against the Ultramontane claims of Rome - "Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht."

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  • The state capitol is in a wooded park at the summit of a hill 85 ft.

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  • The two principal temples are situated at Deulwara, about the middle of the mountain, and five miles south-west of Guru Sikra, the highest summit.

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  • A brazen Triton on the summit, with a rod in his hand, turned round by the wind, pointed to the quarter from which it blew.

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  • The summit is called Megalo Soros.

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  • And although no single feature of the book is Gre'ek, there hangs round it a moral fragrance only to be called forth by one who had fulfilled the vow of his youth, and learnt to breathe, as purely as on "the double summit of Parnassus," the very essence of the antique.

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  • From the summit of the Kaisargarh peak a magnificent view is obtained which practically embraces the whole width of northern Baluchistan.

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  • Immediately on the west of the Kaisargarh there towers the Shingarh Mountain, a geological repetition of the Kaisargarh ridge, black with pines towards the summit and crowned with crags of coral limestone.

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  • Accordingly, in some places the Siwaliks now form a continuous and conformable series from base to summit, in other places the middle beds are absent and the upper beds of the series rest upon the upturned and denuded edges of the lower beds.

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  • The slope then steepens with the ascending curve to the summit of the pass, from which point it falls with a comparatively gentle gradient to the general level of the plateau.

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  • They have been observed on the summit of the table-land as well as on the Himalayan slope.

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  • Its most interesting feature is the occurrence near its summit, north of Cape Mondego, of sands and gravels containing plant remains.

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  • The new boundary line starts from the summit of the Sapaleri (or Zapalegui), where the Argentine, Bolivian and Chilean boundaries converge, and runs west to Licancaur, thence north to the most southern source of Lake Ascotan which it follows to and across this lake in the direction of the Oyahua volcano, and thence in a straight line to the Tua volcano, on the frontier of the province of Tarapaca.

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  • Nothing more is recorded of the city till the time of Xenophon, when it was a small fortified town on the summit of the hill; but it had been striking coins since 420 B.C. at latest.

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  • The summit of the Acropolis is crowded with public buildings, between the market place, which lies at the southern point, and the Royal Gardens on the north.

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  • In its normal state the jet resolves itself into drops, which even before passing the summit, and still more after passing it, are scattered through a considerable width.

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  • Even when the resolution is regularized by the action of external vibrations of suitable frequency, as in the beautiful experiments of Savart and Plateau, the drops must still come into contact before they reach the summit of their parabolic path.

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  • On the summit of Mount Cynthus, above the primitive cavetemple which has always been visible, there have been found the remains of a small precinct dedicated to Zeus Cynthius and Athena Cynthia.

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  • North of Sphagia is the rocky headland of Pylos or Coryphasium, called in modern times Palaeo-Navarino or Palaeokastro, from the Venetian ruins on its summit.

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  • The city occupies a commanding position, being chiefly built on the summit and slopes of a long and narrow rocky ridge, which extends north and south for about 22 m., dividing to the north in a Y-shape, and rising at its highest point to 690 ft.

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  • These crown the summit of the central portion of the ridge; and the largest palace, with its lofty roof and towers, is the most conspicuous object from every point of view.

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  • On the summit of the rock stands a citadel built by Vincentello d'Istria (see Corsica).

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  • The southern parts of the central range are composed of granites, syenites, porphyries and crystalline slates, while in the north of Ichinskaya volcano, which is the highest summit of the peninsula (16,920 ft.), the mountains consist chiefly of Tertiary sandstones and old volcanic rocks.

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  • This synod marks the summit of Alexander's power.

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  • Several of the villages are built very near the summit of the mountains, and one of them, Gottesgab (pop. about 1500), lies at an altitude of 3345 ft., the highest place in Bohemia and central Germany.

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  • On this side lies the culminating summit of the range, the doubleheaded Byelukha (the Mont Blanc of the Altai), whose summits reach 14,890 and 14,560 ft.

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  • The natural cleavage of the trachyte into joint planes had already scarped out shelves which it was comparatively easy for human labour to shape; and so, high up this cone of trachyte, the Greek town of Assus was built, tier above tier, the summit of the crag being crowned with a Doric temple of Athena.

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  • The hospice, near the summit, was founded about 1160, but the pass was certainly used at a much earlier date.

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  • Solomon directed the genii to scoop out a hollow for the throne on the summit of the mountain.

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  • The tableland, which forms the summit of the range, comprises one of the three zones and separates the other zones, viz.

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  • The short land-frontier of England with Scotland (its length is only loo m.) is in great measure a physical boundary, as considerable lengths of it are formed on the east side by the river Tweed, and on the west by Kershope Burn, Liddel Water, and the river Sark; while for the rest it follows pretty closely the summit of the Cheviot Hills, whose highest point is the Cheviot (2676 ft.).

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  • Wales, on the other hand, projecting into the western sea between Liverpool Bay and the estuary of the Dee on the north, and the Bristol Channel on the south, is practically all mountainous, and has in Snowdon, in the north-west, a higher summit than any in England-3560 ft.

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  • On the summit of the former is George III.'s jubilee pyramid.

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  • The range is characterized by the uniformity of summit levels between 5000 and 6000 ft.

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  • Massillon (1663-1742), the famous pulpit orator, was born; the parish church of St Louis, built originally in the 13th century by the Cordelier or Franciscan friars, but completely restored in the earlier part of the 19th century; and the site of the old château, on the summit of the hill, now occupied by a villa.

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  • It is situated on the west coast of Istria, and possesses an interesting cathedral, built on the summit of the promontory Monte di Sant' Eufemia.

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  • Under its ancient name of Urci, Almeria was one of the chief Spanish harbours after the final conquest of Spain by the Romans in 19 B.C. It reached the summit of its prosperity in the middle ages, as the foremost seaport of the Moorish kingdom of Granada.

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  • The main shaft is termed the beam; the first or lowest tine the brow-tine; the second the bez-tine; the third the trez-tine, or royal; and the branched portion forming the summit the crown, or surroyals.

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  • In all red-deer the antlers are rounded, and show a more or less marked tendency to form a cup at the summit.

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  • Normally no cup is developed at the summit of the antler.

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  • In Leptaspis it is formed into a closed cavity by the union of its edges, and encloses the flower, the styles projecting through the pervious summit.

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  • The principal silver regions in 1908 were the Tintic, in Juab and Utah counties, and the Park City, in Summit and Wasatch counties.

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  • Zinc has been produced in commercial quantities in Summit, Tooele and Beaver counties.

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  • In 1906 the output was 6,474,615 lb, valued at $394,952; in 1908 it was 1, 4 60, 554 ib, valued at $68,646, and almost the entire output was from Summit county.

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  • It was formed of a rubble mound quarried by convict labour at the summit of the island, and was lowered by a wire-rope incline to the sea.

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  • From the summit occupied by the castle of St Elmo a transverse ridge runs south to form the promontory of Pizzofalcone, and divides the city into two natural crescents.

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  • He had fled to Ireland a broken man, to all appearance politically extinct; a few years were to raise him once more to the summit of popularity, though power was for ever denied him.

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  • The stout columnar stem may reach a height of 20 metres, and a diameter of half a metre; it remains either unbranched or divides near the summit into several short 4'`.C.

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  • From the lower part of a carpel are produced several laterally placed ovules, which become bright red or orange on ripening; the bright fleshy seeds, which in some species are as large as a goose's egg, and the tawny spreading carpels produce a pleasing combination of colour in the midst of the long dark-green fronds, which curve gracefully upwards and outwards from the summit of the columnar stem.

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  • A feature of interest in connexion with the phylogeny of cycads is the presence of long hairs clothing the scale-leaves, and forming a cap on the summit of the stem-apex or attached to the bases of petioles; on some fossil cycadean plants these outgrowths have the form of scales, and are identical in structure with the ramenta (paleae) of the majority of ferns.

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  • A papery remnant of nucellus lines the inner face of the woody shell, and, as in cycadean seeds, the apical portion is readily separated as a cap covering the summit of the endosperm.

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  • The sitting of parliament is signified by a flag on Victoria Tower in daytime and by a light at the summit of the clock tower at night.

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  • Ascension was originally destitute of vegetation save on the summit of Green Mountain, which owes its verdure to the mists which frequently enshroud it, but the lower hills have been planted with grasses and shrubs.

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  • The Vaenol slate quarries are here, and hence is the easiest ascent of Snowdon, with a railway to the summit.

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  • On the summit of the Hradcany is the vast palace of the ancient kings of Bohemia, which also contains the hall where the estates of Bohemia formerly met.

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  • West of this range, and lying between the 10th parallel and the Caribbean coast, is a remarkable group of lofty peaks and knotted ranges known as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest snowcrowned summit of which rises 17,389 ft.

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  • It is situated on the slopes and the summit of an eminence on the left bank of the Yonne, which is crossed by two bridges leading to suburbs on the right bank.

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  • On the summit is a shrine said to cover the grave of Aaron.

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  • Evidences of one of the oldest known glaciations have been found near the summit in the district of Hay.

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  • But until the clouds rise above the hill there is an obvious countervailing tendency to compression, and in steep slopes this may reduce or entirely prevent precipitation until the summit is reached, when a fall of pressure with commotion must occur.

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  • Very high mountain ranges usually consist of many ridges, among which rain-clouds are entangled in their ascent, and in such cases precipitation towards the windward side of the main range, though on the leeward sides of the minor ridges of which it is formed, may occur to so large an extent that before the summit is reached the clouds are exhausted or nearly so, and in this case the total precipitation is less on the leeward than on the windward side of the main range; but in the moderate heights of the United Kingdom it more commonly happens from the causes explained that precipitation is prevented or greatly retarded until the summit of the ridge is reached.

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  • Not so drop C, for directly the summit is passed the wind necessarily widens out vertically and, having a greater space to fill, loses forward velocity.

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  • Near the summit is the hamlet of Reschen, while some way below is the former hospice of St Valentin auf der Haid, mentioned as early as 1140.

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  • The palace (Schloss), built in1751-1776on the site of the previous erection of 1715, is a plain building in the old French style, composed of a centre and two wings, presenting nothing remarkable except the octagon tower (Bleiturna), from the summit of which a splendid view of the city and surrounding country is obtained, and the marble saloon, in which the meridian of Cassini was fixed or drawn.

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  • Its name is supposed to point to the time when Beltane rites were observed on its summit.

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  • The following day the Boers attacked the hill, overwhelmed its defenders, and Sir George Colley was himself killed in the disastrous contest on the summit.

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  • Regarding the ultimate curve as derived from a given penultimate curve, we connect with the ultimate curve, and consider as belonging to it, certain points called " summits " cn the component curves P 1 = o, P2 =o respectively; a summit / is a point such that, drawing from an arbitrary point 0 the tangents to the penultimate curve, we have OE as the limit of one of these tangents.

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  • The ridge of Hermon, rising into a dome-shaped summit, is 20 m.

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  • The summit is a plateau from which three rocky knolls rise up, that on the west being the lowest, that on the south-east the highest.

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  • Near the summit one of the balls shot from the cannon of Cromwell while besieging the city is still embedded in the wall.

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  • Owing to its position as the first range which the northerly winds strike after crossing the north German plain, the climate on the summit of the Harz is generally raw and damp, even in summer.

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  • Montana Blanca, the highest point (2000 ft.), is cultivated to the summit.

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  • Farther south three parallel chains may be traced, the westernmost of which (the Monti Sabini) culminates to the south in the Monte Viglio (7075 ft.), the central chain in the Monte Terminillo (7260 ft.), and farther south in the Monte Velino (8160 ft.), and the eastern in the Gran Sasso d'Italia (9560 ft.), the highest summit of the Apennines, and the Maiella group (Monte Amaro, 9170 ft.).

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  • Oftener the summit of the ridge is broken into individual mountains, broadly flat-topped and of nearly equal elevation..

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  • Although not comparable in altitude with the Pyrenees (highest summit Aneto, 11,168 ft.) or the Sierra Nevada (highest summit Mulhacen, 11,421 ft.), the coast ranges frequently attain an elevation of over 5000 ft., and in some cases of over 6000 ft.

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  • Moreover, it has been well seen by Hansky from the observatory on the summit of Mont Blanc.

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  • It is repeated in the blazing summit of the Kuh-i-taftan (the burning mountain of the Persian frontier)which is the highest active volcano in Asia (13,000 ft.), and probably the farthest inland.

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  • From our final camp at the south col we made the summit bid.

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  • Little Wyvis in February in deep snow - apart from the summit ridge with the wind screaming out of the eastern corrie.

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  • The last section of the ascent path with the summit crag beckoning ahead.

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  • Initial indications are that the emission was caused by collapse at the summit crater.

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  • The first expedition to the mountain in 2003 found it impossible to cross a large crevasse barring the summit.

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  • Grand summit pledges that turn into creative accounting breed cynicism.

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  • At the forefront Mr Morgan told delegates of his visit to the World Summit.

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  • Trade unions at the Earth Summit You may think sustainable development has very little to do with trade unions.

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  • Stone Arthur is out of sight below the curve of the summit dome.

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  • Of these former free-faces that present on the eastern slope and some distance downslope from the summit is the best preserved.

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  • Site 1 was situated on the summit dun (Enclosure A) and measured approx.

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  • She designed the diets for the 1993 Everest expedition that put the first British woman, Rebecca Stevens MBE, on the summit.

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  • Any effort expended on the ascent is amply repaid once you reach the summit.

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  • Yellow-bellied fantail - Rhipidura hypoxantha In 1999 up to 2 were seen on four dates at the Summit Marsh at Doi Inthanon.

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  • I've arrived at the rather fearsome looking crags at the southwestern edge of Narnain's summit dome.

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  • We reached the summit of Meal Buidhe at about 9pm after having watched two golden eagles gracefully glide in a neighboring valley.

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  • The range of treks varies from a short gentle hikes through terraced foothills to lengthy expeditions to mount Everest's summit.

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  • Governments made a commitment at the 1996 World Food Summit to cut by half the number of chronically hungry people by 2015.

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  • Iraq began to end a decade of diplomatic isolation in March at the Arab summit.

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  • At the summit of the hill lies the city's best known landmark, the medieval cathedral of San Ciriaco.

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  • Unfortunately during the ascent we watched lightning in clouds below to the north, our summit.

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  • From the summit there is a fine view across the sea loch of Loch Leven.

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  • Luge La Clusaz has a summer luge La Clusaz has a summer luge running in the village center with telecabine access to the summit.

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  • We even had a lift down by cable car and were able to enjoy lunch on the summit.

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  • The first thing that struck me was the signposting and immaculately manicured path all the way to the summit.

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  • Other people come to the Tor to quietly meditate on the summit of Tor field.

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  • It took 4 days to clear the mountain and occupy the small, now ruined, monastery at its summit.

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  • The natural pattern is for woodland on the lower slopes, leading to fields and unenclosed moorland on the summit.

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  • To take in an Alpine summit on skis, in the winter or spring, is to become a complete mountaineer.

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  • Here's one of the minor tops, an apparently nameless summit of 892m elevation.

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  • On stepped square plinth a pedestal in form of Roman funerary monument, surmounted by tapering obelisk, pointed at summit.

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  • The summit is unmarked and any one of half a dozen craggy outcrops could be the highest point.

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  • Throughout that extent upwards of fifty hills afford abundant pasturage, many of them being green to the summit.

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  • There is some wet rush pasture toward the summit; elsewhere most cattle pasture is now equestrian grazing.

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  • Near the summit On the Island peak trek The Island Peak Trek is the most popular trekking peak in Nepal.

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  • A hundred yards short of the summit and the central cairngorm plateau came into view.

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  • The summit plateau appears to be more water than hill.

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  • The small and large electric pumps filling up the summit pound.

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  • At 1345 they finally climbed the last precipice and stood on the summit of Pelvoux.

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  • A deposit of ice precipitation was seen on the summit of Snowdon early on the 9th during showers.

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  • The framework for adopting common European immigration policies was set out under the Finnish presidency at the 1999 summit meeting in Tampere.

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  • Move up and immediately step left out onto the front face of the summit prow.

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  • The team uses daylight to navigate through the complex summit pyramid above.

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  • The photo from the summit of Rocky shows his latest reincarnation, with only the black gloves giving him away.

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  • David says that he was surprised at how challenging Lhakpa Ri was and commented on the spectacular 50 meter knife-edge summit ridge.

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  • The final part of the climb being a traverse of the summit ridge which in itself is worth a visit.

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  • Sun Microsystems, however, put on a very serious scowl at a Media Summit held at its Menlo Park offices last week.

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  • Close behind it the formidable rocky face of Liathach rises almost sheer to its summit ridge.

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  • The migrants plowed on but when they got to within three miles of the summit they found their way blocked by five-foot snowdrifts.

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  • The summit of the hill above is covered in birch, with oak the dominant species on the sides.

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  • The ridge above this point starts easily and then steepens below the South Summit.

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  • Everest summited 24 May 2005 Climbers reached the summit of Everest for the first time this season on 21 and 22 May.

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  • To reach the summit, you would need a full day.

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  • And yet, he says, we are spiritually like young bees not yet able to attain the summit of perfection.

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  • On arrival in Windermere, Wainwright ascended the recommended summit of Orrest Head.

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  • On the morning of our visit the lofty summit was attended by its own small cloud, hovering reverently overhead.

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  • The craggy summit I am perched on is Cradle Mountain.

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  • Arriving at our camp, our tents were set up so they had an amazing view over the snow-capped summit.

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  • Near the summit, on the banks of a little tarn, the ashes of that same author were scattered.

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  • This picture on the left is taken from another nameless tarn near the summit.

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  • The summit ascent will normally be undertaken in near freezing temperatures (Even colder with wind chill ).

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  • It's the 2,000 feet Binnian ascent finishing among the summit tors.

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  • Out the forest the summit trig perched on a green hill not too far away.

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  • Or, if it fall, it blasts the labor 'd vale, And spares the barren summit!

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  • Once at the summit, enjoy the vista, then on the descent reap the benefits.

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  • Conditions Clear, almost windless on summit, temps just at freezing.

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  • It must be confessed that the available space (about 70X 20 yds.) on the eastern summit (where there are some remains of ancient buildings) is so small that there would be only room for a single temple, which must have been occupied by the two deities jointly, if the new theory is correct (see Notizie degli scavi, 1902, 387 and refl.).

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  • The crowning exploit was the reduction of Aornus,' a stronghold perched on a precipitous summit above the Indus, which it was said that Heracles had failed to take.

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  • The actual elevation of a summit above sea-level does not necessarily affect its mountainous character; a gentle eminence, for instance, rising a few hundred feet above a tableland, even if at an elevation of say 15,000 ft., could only be called a hill.

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  • The ruling gradient of the Liverpool & Manchester railway was fixed at r in coo, excepting the inclines at Liverpool and at Rainhill summit, for working which special provision was made; and I.

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  • The observatory, which is connected with the university, stands on the summit of the Hill of the Nymphs; like the Academy, it was erected at the expense of a wealthy Greek, Baron Sina of Vienna.

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  • Its trade and commerce prospered and in the 15th century it attained the summit of its prosperity, ruling over a district about 300 sq.

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  • Such are Glittertind or Glitretind (8380), and Memurutind (7966), which face Galdhopiggen across the northward-sloping Visdal; Knutshulstind (7812) and several other peaks exceeding 7000 ft., to the south, between lakes Gjende and Bygdin, and Skagastolstind (7723) in the west of the region, above the Utladal, the chief summit of the magnificent Horunger.

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  • The more resistant rocks, even though dissected by Tertiary erosion, retain in their summit tiplands an indication of the widespread peneplain of Cretaceous tinie, now standing at the altitude given to it by the Tertiary upwarping and post-Tertiary uplift; and the most resistant rocks surmount the Cretaceous peneplain as unconsumed monadnocks of the Mesozoic cycle.

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  • To the west the limit will then be the Col de Tenda (6145 ft.), leading from Cuneo (Coni) to Ventimiglia, while on the east our line will be the route over the Radstadter Tauern (5702 ft.) and the Katschberg (5384 ft.) from Salzburg to Villach in Carinthia, and thence by Klagenfurt to Marburg and so past Laibach in Carniola on to Trieste; from Villach the direct route to Trieste would be over the Predil Pass (3813 ft.) or the Pontebba or Saifnitz Pass (2615 ft.), more to the west, but in either case this would exclude the Terglou (9400 ft.), the highest summit of the entire South-Eastern Alps, as well as its lower neighbours.

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  • The tomb of Munatius Plancus, on the summit of the promontory (see Caietae Portus), is now a naval signal station, and lies in the centre of the extensive earthworks of the modern fortifications.

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  • It is highly illustrative of the tenacity with which the ancient sepulchral usages were retained even after the introduction of Christianity that King Harold, son and successor of Gorm the Old, who is said to have christianized all Denmark and Norway, followed the pagan custom of erecting a chambered tumulus over the remains of his father, on the summit of which was placed a rude pillar-stone, bearing on one side the memorial inscription in runes, and on the other a representation of the Saviour of mankind distinguished by the crossed nimbus surrounding the head.

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  • Massillon (1663-1742), the famous pulpit orator, was born; the parish church of St Louis, built originally in the 13th century by the Cordelier or Franciscan friars, but completely restored in the earlier part of the 19th century; and the site of the old château, on the summit of the hill, now occupied by a villa.

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  • The sublingual is represented by a mass of glands lying just beneath the mucous membrane of the floor of the mouth on the side of the tongue, causing a distinct ridge, extending from the fraenum backwards, the numerous ducts opening separately along the summit of the ridge.

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  • It then becomes a ridable green lane just below the summit of Whernside over to our right.

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  • There is also an opportunity to view the snowy summit, weather dependant.

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  • Leave the summit following the path in a southeasterly direction, still staying parallel to the fence.

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  • On the summit of the next hill the spires of the cathedral can be seen.

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  • The summit is a broad stony plateau, with two summit cairns (some 100 meters apart) toward the northern edge.

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  • The main lounge/dining room looks up to the summit of Cairngorm.

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  • By 1847, a small collection of wooden huts had been built around the summit cairn.

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  • The summit trig is situated in good-quality chalk grassland packed with wild flowers.

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  • The summit dome is rough and bouldery, devoid of vegetation, and snowbound for much of the year.

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  • Lahars originating from the summit crater lake on Mt.

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  • Camp Six will be a Summit Theater which will tell the story of the conquest of Everest in 1953.

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  • The summit ascent will normally be undertaken in near freezing temperatures (Even colder with wind chill).

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  • It 's the 2,000 feet Binnian ascent finishing among the summit tors.

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  • The main subjects of the Seville summit were the strengthening of " fortress Europe " and the toughening of immigration laws.

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  • Beacon Fell Summit A triangulation pillar is situated on the site of where the beacon would have stood.

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  • Such a system would take the sting out of their criticism of the recent trilateral summit meeting.

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  • Or, if it fall, it blasts the labor 'd vale, And spares the barren summit !

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  • The oak wood is delightful to wander through on the way to the summit.

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  • At least there was an obvious forest track wending up to the summit contour level.

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  • It is illuminated by an eerie pink glow, and the summit is wreathed in mystery and cloud.

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  • Many people associate the Summit County ski resorts with Colorado skiing.

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  • It has a base elevation of 8,104 feet, and a summit elevation of 12,510 feet.

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  • Its base elevation of 7,870 feet and a summit of 9,900 feet makes it a good place to acclimate if you are coming from sea level.

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  • Boasting a base elevation of 8,045 and a summit of 11,675 feet, Aspen Highlands is a high-alpine paradise for mogul skiers.

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  • It has a base of 7,945 feet and the summit is 11,212 feet.

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  • The Keystone ski resort is located in Summit County, Colorado.

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  • The resort is often one of the first Summit County resorts to open.

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  • With a base elevation of 911 feet and a summit elevation of 1,338 feet, Nub's Nob is somewhat higher than some of the other Northern Michigan resorts.

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  • It has a base elevation of 750 feet and a summit elevation of 1132 feet.

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  • The Caberfae Peaks ski resort has a base elevation of 1060, which rises to a summit elevation of 1545 feet.

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  • Most skiers visit the Summit County resorts, which are located on the other side of the tunnel.

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  • Summit County is about a two-hour drive from Denver International Airport.

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  • There is, however, the Summit Stage, a free bus that travels within Summit County to all of the local resorts.

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  • The Summit County resorts, which include Copper Mountain, Keystone, Breckenridge and Arapahoe Basin, are mid-sized, and priced at mid-range.

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  • The summit is 13,050 feet with a vertical drop of 2270 feet.

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  • It has a summit elevation of 11,212 feet and a vertical drop of 3267 feet.

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  • Its summit elevation is 9900 feet, with a vertical drop of 2030 feet.

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  • It has a summit elevation of 12,313 feet and a vertical drop of 2601 feet.

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  • For those who will be in Summit County, this is the largest resort in the region and it is also one of the least crowded options.

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  • The resort has a summit elevation of 9850 feet and a vertical drop of 1650 feet.

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  • China Peak Mountain Resort was formerly known as Sierra Summit Ski Area.

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  • Sierra Summit Ski Area had a change in ownership as well as its name.

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  • The Sierra Summit Ski Area was owned by the Snow Summit and operated from 1982 to 2010.

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  • All ships feature rock climbing walls and beginners are welcome to try their hand at reaching the summit while supervised by expert climbers.

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  • The flower-stem is forked near the summit, and carries two or three heads of flowers, six to eight blooms on each, of a brown-orange color.

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  • S. terebinthinaceum (Prairie Dock) has stems 4 to 10 feet high, panicled at the summit, and bearing many small heads of light yellow flowers.

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  • Japan, where it covers the trees from base to summit with a gorgeous mantle in autumn.

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  • Blizzard Beach is home to Summit Plummet, one of the tallest water slides in the United States.

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  • At the top of Mount Gushmore, individuals gain access to the Teamboat Springs, Summit Plummet and Slush Gusher attractions.

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  • Other attractions include Runoff Rapids, Slush Gusher, Snow Stormers, Summit Plummet, Teamboat Springs and Toboggan Racers.

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  • The games in this series include Ghost Recon, Desert Siege, Island Thunder, Jungle Storm, Ghost Recon 2, Summit Strike, Advanced Warfighter, and Advanced Warfighter 2.

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  • The serious games summit is devoted to the development of non-entertainment games.

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  • This summit is the 2nd annual gathering for those committed to developing games for these purposes.

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  • Archery Summit also produces world-class Pinot Noir wines that have won many awards and consistently rate high in Wine Spectator for quality.

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  • Climbing up to Skylight summit will reward you with some of the most spectacular views of New York's Mountains and city sights.

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  • The annual Technical Communication Summit offers members opportunities to see new products, attend seminars and demonstrations.

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  • With the success of the Twilight movie, it isn't a surprise that Summit Entertainment signed on for a three film deal.

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  • After the release of Twilight grumblings began that director Catherine Hardwicke and Summit Entertainment were at odds with one another.

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  • This was the reason Hardwicke and Summit parted ways.

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  • Summit then signed on director Chris Weitz for New Moon.

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  • New Moon is one of the Twilight series of movies released by Summit Entertainment on November 20, 2009.

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