highland

• “Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney Ridge down to the Sound.”

  Notes on the State of Virginia

• “So great an inconvenience lessens their value very much, and makes highland, that is just tolerable, of greater advantage to the owner.”

  The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published

• “The Mahiccon, or Mahattan, who occupied Staten island, York island, (which from its being the principal seat of their residence was formerly called Mahatton) Long island and that part of New-York and Connecticut which lies between Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney ridge down to the Sound.”

  Notes on the State of Virginia.

• “I say that the first lesson to be learned from this construction is that it was not done on the plains amid the farmlands, that it was done on the highland which is more or less equidistant from the center.”

  DEDICATION OF NEW RURAL COMMUNITY

• “Tarrant, another charming "highland" village, and the road, sloping down the entire distance, struck me as one of the best to be on I had travelled in Hampshire, running along a narrow green valley, with oak and birch and bramble and thorn in their late autumn colours growing on the slopes on either hand.”

  Afoot in England

• “The green and fertile region which is thus interposed between the 'highland' and 'lowland' deserts, [3] participates, curiously enough, in both characters.”

  A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1

• “To write the word "highland," the pen has to make twenty-two strokes.”

  What Is Man? and Other Essays

• “American army; while the Hessian columns, stretching across a chain of the "highland," attempted to turn Gen. Greene's flank, and storm the advanced redoubt.”

  History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

• “I thought that if the commissioners themselves, and the king of Holland with them, had spent a few days here, with their packs upon their backs, looking for that "highland," they would have had an interesting time, and perhaps it would have modified their views of the question somewhat.”

  The Maine Woods

• “The green and fertile region, which is thus interposed between the "highland" and the "lowland" deserts, participates, curiously enough, in both characters.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

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