How To Use Highlands In A Sentence
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He discussions certain sparsely settled areas (the Highlands of Scotland, for example) as requiring less division of labor than more densely settled areas, and argues that this will slow down the development of manufacture, which makes a great deal of sense.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
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In recent years there has been a flurry of headlines about prospecting companies coming to the Highlands in search of precious gems.
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Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
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After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
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Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.
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The Park consists of two geomorphic units: rift valley volcanic mountains and Congo basin low highlands.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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The central highlands are also receiving their first snowfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The southern half of the Republic of Guatemala mainly consists of beautiful mountain highlands and plateaus, which are susceptible to devastating earthquakes.
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Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
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The highlands have rugged terrain that is difficult to cultivate.
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In parts of the Southern Province and central highlands they were little used, and human power was employed instead.
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Radio nan Gaidheal will broadcast a single morning block to the Highlands and Islands, replacing the current piecemeal pattern of programmes.
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Concerns are also growing over the pylons needed to carry electricity from remote parts of the Highlands and the Borders.
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As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
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The first stop on the tourist route out of the city is the hill town of Dalat in the southern central highlands.
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Many species common in montane forest, such as trees of the genera Podocarpus and Juniperus, have economic importance, while several crops including coffee (Coffea arabica) and tef (Eragrostis tef) from the Ethiopian Highlands have been domesticated.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Enlil agrees to grant the remnants of Mankind implements and seeds; agriculture begins in the highlands.
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Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill.
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These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
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He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
Waverley
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The search is still continuing for a group of climbers reported missing in the Scottish highlands.
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Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain.
Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
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This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands; for here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Located about two hours west of Sofia in the Sredna Gora highlands, Koprivshtitsa is a prime example of Bulgaria's attempt to promote its country life to tourists.
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Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swim, raft, or trek along the rivers, which emerge from the glacial highlands of the Andes and vary from black to white, cloudy, ruddy, or salty.
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There has been much interest recently in the Scots’ language Gaelic, once the preserve of the teuchters in the highlands but now increasingly popular among the keelies in the lowlands.
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In New Jersey, Triassic brownish red, shale, sandstone, and argillite are extensive; these sedimentary rocks are much less resistant to erosion than the metamorphic crystalline rocks that form the core of the adjacent Northeastern Highlands (58).
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky.
The Silverado Squatters
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The highlands of this park are forested with the peak of Mount Meru rising above the forests to dominate the area.
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Rich in Native American and pioneer history, the Appalachian Highlands boast an amazing plant diversity - from laurel to flowering dogwood - and more than 200 different kinds of birds.
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The Long-tailed Sylph occurs in highlands of northwestern South America from Venezuela to Bolivia.
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While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
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Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
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The regiment was recruited from the Highlands specifically for service in India.
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No matter the range of your holiday aspirations, from a weekend break in the Highlands to a grand tour of the Far East, there is no doubt that having a sprog in tow slows you down.
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Besides raising Angus cattle in the South Highlands Theo's a property developer in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and investor in listed and unlisted companies by himself and with others.
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Many areas of both the highlands and the lowlands supported very dense populations prior to the Roman invasion.
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There is ground to conclude that they came down from mountains in the fact that the name "Accad" means "Mountains" or "Highlands," a name which they could not possibly have taken in the dead flats of Lower Chaldea, but must have retained as a relic of an older home.
Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
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Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
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They did up an old cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
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Western Highlands, and was living in some house on the coast, how sad and still the Atlantic must have been all this wet forenoon, with the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay lying remote and gray and misty in the far and desolate plain of the sea!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
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Ecoregion 37 is a synclinal and alluvial valley lying between the Ozark Highlands (39) and the Ouachita Mountains (36).
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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‘If the person was from the Highlands, they would be familiar with the pros and cons of this sort of area,’ he said.
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It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
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In the highlands a kind of polygonum is used for this purpose.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
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Cultivated oca has an important place in the diets and farming systems of rural communities in the Andean highlands.
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Overall, physiography and lithology contrast with the low mountains of the Northeastern Highlands (58), the Ridge and Valley (67), and the flat coastal plains of Ecoregions 63 and 84.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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The proposal is seen as the only option left to bail out the cash - starved Highlands and Islands Fire Service which is short of equipment such as ladders, breathing apparatus, cutting equipment, fireproof clothing and pumps.
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The dry season, caused by the Humboldt current, is characterized by cool temperatures (17°C-22°C), a fairly persistent fog (garua) that envelopes the highlands of the larger islands in mist and drizzle, together with southeasterly winds.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
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Most of the near side of the Moon is bright, rough, high terrain, called the lunar highlands.
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It gives incomers to the highlands and islands a link to their adoptive country that's very much more real than blood or poetry.
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For complexity of form and for the splendour of its corries and glens, this hill has few equals in the central Highlands.
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The Western Highlands possess a beauty and a majesty found nowhere else in Britain.
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In fact, when one considers the oblique twists, unexpected turns and apparently random decisions that have characterised his career, then a home in the Highlands village actually seems somehow inevitable.
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In today's Highlands, the march of the modern means that the hills support unsaleable sheep and the shores inedible shellfish; salmon are caged and deer without number pollute the bens.
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The mainland subspecies of swamp antechinus (Antechinus minimus maritimus) and white footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) are largely restricted to coastal regions, while other species, such as the koala, are widespread throughout this ecoregion and excluded from the Central Highlands because of the cold winters.
Southeast Australia temperate forests
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Snow is forecast in the Highlands where the thermometer could hit zero.
The Sun
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In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Then there is of course the wholesale wiping out of some 300 hamlets and villages in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
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As well as streams of south-west England and mainland Europe, the young salmon belong to rivers and glens that drain the western Highlands.
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Llamas were first domesticated more than 5,000 years ago in the Peruvian highlands.
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The temperature outside right now at 8 PM in the actual middle of the country central highlands, not the western central highlands, is 17º C. that is 62. 6º F. It´s cool, but a long way from cold.
The geography and dynamics of modern Mexico.
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Secondly, to the west of this mountain wilderness, stretching upwards from the sea in a wedge form between the Brahui highlands and the group of towering peaks which enclose the Hingol river and abut on the sea at Malan, are the alluvial flats and delta of the Purali, forming the little province of Las
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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In general, Venezuela is usually divided into four major environmental regions: the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the llanos, and the Guiana Highlands.
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The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
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Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
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It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
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In the highlands where Dawg lives with homes at both 5,000 and 7,000 feet, no cooling is ever required except ceiling fans if you buy in the right location.
About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life"
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On the down side though is the fact that, in the Highlands, many of the roads are unsurfaced: gravel roads like you find in the more remote parts of New Zealand.
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The reds are cratered highlands, which contain few resources.
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Most Spanish speakers live in the Pacific lowlands and central highlands.
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In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence among groups in the Central Highlands for its implied association with a ‘primitive’, benighted phase of history.
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Several families of the Highlands of Scotland anciently laid claim to the distinction of an attendant spirit who performed the office of the Irish banshie.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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More than 30 of the nearly 200 mammals found in the Ethiopian Highlands are found nowhere else, including a remarkable six endemic genera, four of which are monotypic: three rodents (Megadendromus, Muriculus, and Nilopegamys) and one primate, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada).
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Finally, when military occupation of the entire valley proved unfeasible, the general decided to leave the lowlands to the southerners and to occupy all the highlands with his people, and in time the Highlanders became known as the Hakka, the Guest People, while the lowlanders were called the Punti, the Natives of the Land.
Hawaii
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The highlands are populated mainly by peasant farmers.
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The Okavango River rises in the highlands of Angola and flows inland, never to reach the sea.
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Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable.
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The committee decided not to take evidence from the Crofting Counties Fishing Rights Group, which represents some 500 gillies, river bailiffs and other river workers in the Highlands.
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In the cooler highlands, they wear a calf-length shirt called a zanna with a jacket.
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A man and a woman have died and another man was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after an avalanche in the Highlands.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had made a brave but abortive attempt to reach the remote site on Ben More Assynt, near Sutherland in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, when she was 23.
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A population of the threatened wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) may still be living in Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, near the junction of the Eastern Ghats Mountains and the eastern highlands.
Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests
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I was driven from the highlands over dirt roads to Qui Nhon on the sea coast.
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In some parts of the highlands, villages are separated by valleys and mountain ridges.
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The name's play on words is a nod to indigenous culture in Bolivia where approximately 60% of the country self-identifies as indigenous; the term "colla" refers to indigenous people living in the western highlands of Bolivia.
CounterPunch
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Because Labour currently only holds party list seats in the Highlands & Islands, it is little affected by the apparent erosion of its second vote support.
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I don't even want to think about what the soils conditions are at the Duwamish River (aka Green River, aka White River) where outwash from the Green River Valley, and hence Mount Rainier's ancient mudflows, has deposited itself in an ancient alluvial fan in Elliot Bay -- constrained by the West Seattle highlands on the west and the ridge that separates the Sound from Lake Washington.
Sound Politics: "The heavyweight fight for the waterfront"
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I would rather she went to the wild Highlands with a barelegged cateran than wed with one who could, at such a season, so broadly forget honour and decency.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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A "gilly" is a man attendant in the Scottish Highlands.
Watch Yourself Go By
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This species, which is endemic to marshes and moorlands located in the Ethiopian highlands, is very much like the northern lapwing, V. vanellus, found in Europe: it is a relatively tame, noisy bird with a swerving flight that feeds on the ground, making short runs and sudden stops.
Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
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As a result, the highlands of East Africa bore the brunt of European colonization.
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Like the rest of the Highlands and Islands, Skye suffered during the mid-19th century from the Clearances, when unscrupulous lairds forced crofters out of their homes and off the land to make way for sheep.
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I've been hillwalking in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, a breathtakingly beautiful landscape of mountain, lochan-jewelled moorland and coastline and on a fine day in spring as close to heaven as I ever hope to find on this earth.
Archive 2006-05-01
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In the Highlands, a Northern Constabulary spokesman said motorists in the region and the north-west of the country should avoid using the roads during the earlier part of the week.
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Similarly, over half the avifauna of the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama is endemic to this region.
Talamancan montane forests
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· As a result of uncontrolled hunting the wild yak is endangered and is now restricted to remote barrens on upland plateaus and highlands in northern Tibet and Chinghai, inhospitable even to domestic yaks.
1 Domesticated Banteng
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Whistling was, however, an accomplishment of which we were rather proud, as we considered ourselves experts, and beguiled many a weary mile's march with quicksteps -- English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish -- which we flattered ourselves sounded better amongst the hills of the Highlands of Scotland even than the sacred bagpipes of the most famous Scotch regiments.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills.
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They are spending some time at Balmoral, which is in the Scottish Highlands.
CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2005
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In the late prehistoric period, pine woodland was extensive in the Scottish Highlands and the west of Ireland.
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But now the internet is poised to make a remote Highlands village one of the world's most viewed scenes.
The Sun
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The Pech and Jicaque people live in some of the more remote areas in the central highlands.
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For the first time in 2,000 years, Scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, holly, and mountain ash are set to reclaim a large swath of the Scottish Highlands.
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However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership.
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Most of the Moon's iron-rich basalt maria occur on the near side as well, where they alternate with highlands having only moderate concentrations of iron.
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In pursuing him to a final confrontation across the braes and corries of the Highlands (after time to reflect during a day's fishing) Hannay attempts to save his life during a last dangerous climb at the risk of losing his.
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When that king was making his great endeavour, in the middle of the thirteenth century, to overthrow the Norwegian power in the Western Highlands and Isles, he was joined by Cormac with a force of three birlinns or galleys of sixteen oars each.
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Employed by the Board of Ordnance, William Roy began mapping the Highlands in 1747, pushing a surveyor's wheel and using a simple kind of theodolite called a circumferentor.
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt - review
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The foundation of the Bolivian diet in the Andean highlands or altiplano is the potato.
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The highlands are populated mainly by peasant farmers.
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Even Scottish officials castigated Gaelic ('the Irish language') as 'one of the chief and principal causes of the continuance of barbarity and incivility amongst the inhabitants of the isles and highlands'.
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The teachers met with the Highlands branch of the PNG Teachers Association and resolved that if salaries owing were not paid by the specified date they would instigate legal action and withdraw their services.
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He spent the weekend stalking deer in the Scottish highlands.
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Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
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Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
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Each dram took the bite out of the cold air and as light faded from the highlands around us, the browns and greens fading to deeper grays, we told stories of the departed that turned the air blue.
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She also owns a stud farm near Newbury and a deer forest in the Highlands.
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Up here, where the road climbed into the highlands, the land was barren.
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We are both from Nairn, a town in the Highlands that rivals Sweden for heavenliness and boasts the most days of sunshine in Scotland.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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The country rises from sea level in the south to rugged highlands in the north and west, and Sana'a is ringed by mountains that legend says flew from Sinai to Yemen.
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We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy.
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The mare basins have dark, rather smooth floors that lie well below the altitude of the highlands.
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The Council were unanimously of opinion that 4,000 men move down the west side of Hudson's river, & take post att or near Haverstraw; that 1,000 remain in the Highlands to cover the country or repair the works as the Gen* may direct, the remainder to march as soon as possible towards Kingsbridge for the purpose before men - tioned, & that CoP Morgan's corps of riflemen, which is considered as part of the 4,000 to move down on the west
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Mac – Ivor of Glennaquoich — ranks high in the latter class, as, from your apparent ingenuousness, youth, and unacquaintance with the manners of the Highlands, I should be disposed to place you among the former.
Waverley
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It was primitive man, riding between the highlands, uncumbered, free to grasp what was before him.
Lazarre
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Likewise one of the elephant parks should be on the agenda - pachyderms being a fairly rare sight in the Highlands of Scotland.
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Highlands, with accessions from the English garrisons, and besiege them there.
In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce
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Terrain: Coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente)
Ecuador
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A year after his family set up home again in the Highlands his father passed away suddenly.
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It irrigates a score of mountain meadows before it makes the plunge and is clarified to crystal clearness in the next few rugged miles; and at the plunge from the highlands it generates half the power and all the lighting used on the ranch.
CHAPTER IX
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The glen was a peaceful place to live and free from most of the raiding and feuding that plagued the Highlands, thanks to being situated in a remote and naturally defensive valley, but it still had its dangers.
My Devilish Scotsman
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This older alphabet, which still survives, is called the Glagolitic (from glagolati, to speak, because the rude tribesmen imagined that the letters spoke to the reader and told him what to say), and was used by the southern Slavic tribes and now exists along the Adriatic highlands.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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He began thinking of the huge travelling contingent from the Highlands sitting above in the stand and wondering if they'd had a wasted journey.
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Terrain: Andes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast.
Venezuela
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My conductor, however, informed me, that to get through this deep and important stream, and to clear all its tributary dependencies, the general pass from the Highlands to the southward lay by what was called the Fords of Frew, at all times deep and difficult of passage, and often altogether unfordable.
Rob Roy
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[GRUMACH — ill-favored.] (which, from an obliquity in his eyes, was the personal distinction he bore in the Highlands, where titles of rank are unknown) was suspected of being a better man in the cabinet than in the field.
A Legend of Montrose
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VenezuelaAndes Mountains and Maracaibo Lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guiana Highlands in southeast
Terrain
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Manors and even small keeps abound in the highlands, not tourist attractions but still noble family estates.
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It would appear that the white stag can roam the Highlands in safety.
Times, Sunday Times
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The public also wants completion of the University of the Highlands and Islands, a project that Roe sees as a vital key to luring and retaining skilled as well as semi-skilled workers.
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A man and a woman have died and another man was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after an avalanche in the Highlands.
Times, Sunday Times
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In today's Highlands, the march of the modern means that the hills support unsaleable sheep and the shores inedible shellfish; salmon are caged and deer without number pollute the bens.
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On this moderate-to-strenuous trip, we'll walk the pastoral lowland glens along the banks of exquisite Loch Lomond to the great Scottish Highlands.
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The Scottish Highlands are a great location to enjoy outdoor pursuits but people need to protect themselves.
The Sun
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The species develops into large populations on deep sands and alluvia in the Sahelian belt heavy vertisols in the Ethiopian highlands, and around many of the rift valley lakes or riverine and valley bottoms in east and southern Africa.
Chapter 33
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The obstacles created by the highlands, valleys, and gorges found in the mountain regions fostered strong cultural and linguistic differences.
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In fact, for all of the debate about growth and sprawl, no one disputes the quality of the amenities that have been built into Highlands Ranch or how attractive those perks are for young families.
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After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
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Low-flying fighter and fighter-bomber training goes on all the time over the Highlands.
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The civil centre of the barony was the great farm or grange, with its mill, for in the thirteenth century the Lowlands had water-mills which to the west Highlands were scarcely known in 1745, when the Highland husbandmen were still using the primitive hand-quern of two circular stones.
A Short History of Scotland
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This picturesque land is divided into three main geographic regions: the costa, along the South Pacific; the sierra, or highlands of the Andes mountains; and the selva, or jungle, in the east.
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Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, ISO 800, f/9, 1/640 sec Question: This non-migratory monomorphic mystery bird, which is endemic to the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is a member of a family of birds that are exclusive to the Old World.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris
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It could have been the mountain vistas, high ridges down to misty valleys that I swear have hobbits living in them, or the hard consonants and "shhh" sounds of the 21 mayan languages that are heard more often than spanish in the highlands.
GUATEMALA!!!
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The master of a stately park in Devon, a moor and "bothy" in the highlands, a villa on the Arno, a gem of a cottage in the Isle of
A Terrible Secret
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Landing at the same spot on the Shire banks as before, Livingstone, with thirty-six Makololo porters and two native guides, ascended the beautiful Shire Highlands, some twelve hundred feet above sea-level, and crossed the range on which Zomba, the residence of the British Commissioner for Nyassaland, now stands.
A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
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On the dangerous San Francisco River one of the rapids is called “Tira-calcoens” = take off your trousers (Highlands of the Brazil, ii.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
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With his fair hair, strong jaw line, light blue eyes and aquiline nose, he could easily have just walked out of the Scottish Highlands and into the bar at London's Marriott Hotel.
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Until that moment I'd assumed that the Highlands were a large underpopulated expanse of differing counties.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Visitors walk through a series of geographical-themed displays that cover a range of aquatic species, from frogs in the "Highlands" display to the "Amazon Flooded Forest" section where there's a rare South American freshwater fish, a three-meter-long arapaima.
Finding Nemo
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Silver (and, later, tin) mining and agriculture in the highlands have historically been the twin pillars of the economy.
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The naturally unforested areas on the second Highlands in Paran found halfway along the route served as pastureland.
1. Overview
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Fair enough, help out people in the Highlands who have no alternative but to drive.
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In the highlands the Amhara grow barley, wheat, hops, and a variety of beans.
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It completely fills a small, deep valley in the headwaters of the Choluteca River, in the central highlands.
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But in the Scottish highlands, surrounded by rutting males, the cold truth was horribly different
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Stranded motorists were rescued from their vehicles by the emergency services after snowdrifts up to 20 ft deep paralysed areas of the Scottish Highlands.
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The Scottish Executive clearly trusts him too - it has commissioned him to come up with a major event to promote the Highlands in 2007.
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In southwestern China, on the highlands of the Yunnan-Sichuan plateau, successful cultivation and utilization of octoploid triticale is under way.
7 Experiences Around the World
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Twenty four hours and many new friends at the Qatar Airways lost and found office later, we are back on track, with a complete luggage set, flying overnight to Jayapura, the capital of Papua, and onwards to Wamena in the highlands.
Danna Harman: Searching for Cannibals
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But a large region of rugged highlands on the far side, as well as heavily cratered patches on the near side, are poor in both iron and thorium.
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The Highlands are teeming with fascinating creatures, and witnessing any of them going about their daily business is an exciting privilege.
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With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.
Chapter 19
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Structural and geochemical studies are of the greatest value in the Northern Highlands.
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Stranded motorists were rescued from their vehicles by the emergency services after snowdrifts up to 20 ft deep paralysed areas of the Scottish Highlands.
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Tasmania's logging furore centres on the Styx Valley, the Tarkine, the Great Western Tiers, the Northeast Highlands, the Eastern Tiers, the Tasman Peninsula and the Leven Valley.
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Others view him as the kind of arrogant, toffee-nosed, self-regarding, would-be aristocrat who gives gun-wielding, fly-casting Englishmen abroad in the Highlands a very well-deserved bad name.
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Scarabeo Stone Camp, a tented retreat set amid the desert highlands of Morocco, is a vanisher's paradise.
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A preliminary list of the avifauna gives 224 species including 42 endemics, 75% of the endemic species of the Central Highlands.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Evidence of methane rainfall came from Huygens's images of the surface, which showed sinuous, branching channels extending from relatively bright highlands to a tarry plain.
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In the highlands, where pasture is scarce, herdboys often spend months alone with their flocks in a mountain valley some distance from their home.
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The 2002 series is spread across the entire panorama of Scottish golf - from the furthest flung northerly courses at Caithness and the wild west coast at Turnberry to the links and parklands of the Highlands and Speyside.
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These included aggregations sampled along parallel watersheds in the Madawaska Highlands for examining fine geographic scale population structure.
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Join the Mount Lemmon volunteer interpreters on a refreshing hike in the cool highlands of the Santa Catalinas.
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He asked, if weaving the plaids was ever a domestick art in the Highlands, like spinning or knitting.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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It is an ethnographic study of a specific regional, supra-ethnic and transcultural phenomenon of the Guyana Highlands, situated in the context of ethnohistory and modernisation.
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Snow is forecast in the Highlands where the thermometer could hit zero.
The Sun
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BROGUE, (1) A rough shoe of raw leather (from the Gael. _brog_, a shoe) worn in the wilder parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Ministers who believe in an eternal mental and physical torment are much thicker on the ground in the Highlands and Islands and on the west coast of the mainland.
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The bus company has just acquired a 1950 bull-nosed Bedford OB bus, which until recently did duty as the Trossachs Trundler taking trippers around the Scottish highlands.
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Several scientists believed they were extinct until two Indonesian scientists trapping rats in the highlands of Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed a pygmy tarsier in 2000.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Scott has grown-up to be a brisk-hearted jovial young man and Advocate: in vacation-time he makes excursions to the Highlands, to the Border Cheviots and Northumberland; rides free and far, on his stout galloway, through bog and brake, over the dim moory Debatable Land, over Flodden and other fields and places, where, though he yet knew it not, his work lay.
Paras. 25-49
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These reservoirs, which supply water to the towns of Cornwall and Highlands, New York, were built before 1920.
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Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky - not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands.
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The ‘quality of life index’ suggests the happiest Scots live in the Highlands where the rural idyll of low crime, a strong sense of community and good health remains largely intact.
