Elevated+plain
31Cerro de Arcos — A general view of the Cerro de Arcos (with Cerro de las Chinchas in the background) Elevation …
32Lower Engadine — Location = The Lower Engadine is part of Engadin, traversed by the Inn river and located in Eastern Switzerland in the Canton Graubünden.In contrast to the elevated plain of the Upper Engadin, where the upper reaches of the Inn River flow gently… …
33Fribourg — Fr. /frddee boohrdd /, n. 1. a canton in W Switzerland. 181,800; 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km). 2. a town in and the capital of this canton. 40,500. German, Freiburg. * * * ▪ Switzerland German Freiburg capital of Fribourg canton, Switzerland. It …
34Mount — Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. 3:25; 11:11; Ezek. 34:13). West of Jordan the mountains stretch from Lebanon far down into Galilee, terminating in Carmel. The isolated peak of Tabor rises from the elevated plain of Esdraelon, which, in the …
35SAN JOSÉ — 1) (18), a city of California, and capital of Santa Clara county, on the Guadalupe River, 50 m. SE. of San Francisco; has a couple of Catholic colleges, a Methodist university, pretty orchards, &c.; fruit canning and the manufacture of flour… …
36SAN SALVADOR — (20), capital of SALVADOR (q.v.), situated on a fertile and elevated plain at the base of an extinct volcano; has suffered frequently and severely from earthquakes, and after the disaster of 1854 a new town, Nueva San Salvador, was built 12 m …
37SANTIAGO — (393), capital of Chile, beautifully situated on a wide fertile and elevated plain overhung on the N. and E. by the snow clad peaks of the Andes, 90 m. SE. of Valparaiso; the Mapocho, a mountain stream, passes through the N. part of the city,… …
38SHIRAZ — (30), a celebrated city of Persia, occupying a charming site on an elevated plain, 165 m. NE. of Bushire; founded in the 8th century; was for long a centre of Persian culture, and a favourite resort of the royal princes; its beauties are… …
39breaks — (colloquial: western USA) A landscape or large tract of steep, rough or broken land dissected by ravines and gullies and marks a sudden change in topography as from an elevated plain to lower hilly terrain, or a line of irregular cliffs at the …
40table-land — n. Elevated plain, plateau …
