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  • This Rift valley boundary area includes two of African Great Lakes, Lake Albert and Lake Edward, the snow-capped Ruwenzori mountains (considered by many to be the legendary "Mountains of the Moon"), as well as many imperiled species, like the Mountain gorilla.

    Uganda country profile 2009

  • This Rift valley boundary area includes two of African Great Lakes, Lake Albert and Lake Edward, the snow-capped Ruwenzori mountains (considered by many to be the legendary "Mountains of the Moon"), as well as many imperiled species, like the Mountain gorilla.

    Uganda 2009

  • "I am sure it is at the foot of these mountains that the strange island exists," he thought, as he paused on the summit of one of the foothills of the snow-crowned Monarch of Mountains.

    Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America Roy Rockwood

  • Some three days 'march from the capital, in the mountains near Kazveen, there lived the Old Man of the Mountains, or as he is generally known, the King of the Assassins, with his followers.

    The Cat and the Mouse A Book of Persian Fairy Tales Hartwell [Editor] James 1910

  • Continued our journey along the foot of the mountains [Stein's Mountains] 18 miles N. by

    John Work's Journal: April 21st - July 20, 1831 1831

  • S.E. of us sometimes snow. at present there is no snow on those mountains; that which covered them when we first saw them and which has fallen on them several times since has all disappeared. the Mountains to the N.W. & W. of us are still entirely covered are white and glitter with the reflection of the sun.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • The Rat in the rocky mountains on its west side are like those on the upper part of the Missouri in and near those Mountains and have the distingushing trait of possessing a tail covered with hair like other parts of the body; one of these we caught at the white bear Islands in the beginning of July last and then partially discribed.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • The horse is confined principally to the nations inhabiting the great plains of Columbia extending from Latitude 40° to 50° N. and occuping the tract of country lying between the rocky mountains and a range of Mountains which pass the columbia river about the great falls or from Longitude 116 to 121

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Southwardly branch of Lewis's river which pass around the Eastern extremity of those mountains, it must water that vast tract of Country extending from those Mountains to the Waters of the Gulf of

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Virginia, mountains gone now Take my home, from country roads I hear her voice Grieving for the hills that called me The Mountains crying as my home fades away And drivin down the road I get a feelin I should have voted a different way, yesterday Coal company, take my home From the place I once belonged West Virginia, mountains gone

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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