tableland

"We must have climbed up here to what father called the tableland, and somewhere farther on, I suppose, we should come to the edge of the cliff and look down into the valley with the openings facing one.

The Peril Finders George Manville Fenn 1870

A certain part of the rain-bearing clouds passes still farther inland, and scatters showers over the eastern part of the tableland, that is to say, over the

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

I have described in a former Despatch, that rich pastoral District of the tableland which is known as the "Darling Downs."

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

Two mountain streams have so joined as to form a peninsula of tableland which is well shaded by cotton-wood trees.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

From the head of the slope the path crossed a kind of tableland, and they could easily keep their guide in sight for a long distance.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

It was as Mami had said, very strong, a kind of tableland ringed round with precipices that could only be climbed through a single narrow nek, and overshadowed by the great Quathlamba range.

The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard 1890

We soon after emerged from the wood and found that we were on a kind of tableland and, approaching a deep ravine coming from our right and terminating on a very fine-looking open country below, watered by a winding river.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

A wind swept over the rugged tableland and lifted her toffee-colored hair to rush its fingers through it.

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

A wind swept over the rugged tableland and lifted her toffee-colored hair to rush its fingers through it.

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

Thanks, Carron for the accolades for Chiapas´ fabulous state capital of Tuxtla Gurierrez - a true tropical non-coastal city at about 1,200 feet altitude on the so - called Chiapas Depression or what I would call the Chiapas low-lying tableland between the Chiapas Highlands with elevations between 7,000 and 12,000 feet and the "Tierra Caliente" or hot lands of the Pacific Coast.

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