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land and slopes
In " The End of Time, Part One ", the Master refers to his father's land on Gallifrey which had red grass and stretched across the slopes of Mount Perdition.
Overall, the land slopes from the high Altay Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in the east and the south.
Covering more than 60 percent of Paraguay's total land area, the Chaco plain gently slopes eastward to the Río Paraguay.
From the highest peaks the land slopes down to hilly areas, ( not always, though ; sometimes there is a brusque transition from the mountains to the plains ) and then to the upper, and then the lower the great Padan Plain.
The relatively well-watered and fertile upper slopes and the mountains behind are extensively terraced to allow maximum land use.
The alder came from the western-most part of today's Slovenia ( resulting in the barren land of the Kras region ), in two regions of Croatia, Lika and Gorski kotar ( resulting in the barren slopes of Velebit ) and south of Montenegro.
The White-tailed deer have recently expanded their range within the foothills and river valley bottoms of the Canadian Rockies owing to conversion of land to cropland and the clearing of coniferous forests allowing more deciduous vegetation to grow up the mountain slopes.
The land falls steeply downwards to the north and the west of the castle, and the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance footpath, runs along the base of these slopes.
Zoline bought the land for the future resort in 1969 and began to craft the slopes.
The land is described in the text as " a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams ", with gentle slopes, " shielded from the east by the Ephel Dúath and yet not under the mountain-shadow, protected from the north by the Emyn Muil, open to the southern airs and the moist winds from the Sea ".
; Lamedon: A region formed by a series of valleys on the southern slopes of the White Mountains, separated from Belfalas by highlands ; river Ciril sprang from this land.
On the seaward side the land slopes more gently.
The village lies a little distance from the river, on the slopes of Strumpshaw Hill, the highest area of land in the Norfolk Broads.
The steeper slopes have avoided any land clearing, acting as a refuge for wildlife in the region.
Washington is one of only two municipalities in Connecticut to base permissible residential density on the soils composition of land parcels, and it was one of the first Connecticut towns to adopt net-density subdivision regulations, which render wetlands, flood plains, and steep slopes ineligible for satisfying the minimum acreage requirements for creating new building lots.
This is presumably due to the existence of bee habitat in hedgerows, on slopes, and in other non-agricultural land in the survey area.
The landscape varies greatly, with large swaths of flat land ( typically in Bon Air, Central City and Gladeview ) to areas with gentle slopes, and even steep cliffs and hillsides in certain areas.
The land west of the town slopes gradually downward for about 2 miles then rises abruptly by about 300 feet ( 100 m ) at Basin Hill.
In these circumstances bog develops as a layer " blanketing " much of the land, including hilltops and slopes.
Tong Village, c. to the south-east of Bradford City centre, is situated at an elevation of 145 m on the northern slopes of Ringshaw Beck, the land rising to an elevation of 167 m at Hall Green.
Yunnan has a generally mild climate with pleasant and fair weather because of the province's location on south-facing mountain slopes, receiving the influence of both the Pacific and Indian oceans, and although the growing period is long, the rugged terrain provides little arable land.
In SC2K, land could either be flat or sloped, and all slopes were of the same steepness.
This country, some hundred miles long and nearly thirty wide, is a fertile stretch of agricultural land on the lower slopes of the Maluti mountains.
To the west the land gently slopes up to roughly on the Lincolnshire Edge about away.
The house style depends on the lay of the land: old river terraces, former lake beds or mountain slopes.

land and downwards
Initially those who held land directly from the king by military service, from earls downwards, all bore alike the title of baron, which was thus the factor uniting all members of the ancient baronage as peers one of another.
The land slopes gently downwards to the North West to the River Clyde.
Her Augustness Princess Okinaga-tarashi, was at that time, divinely possessed … charged him with this instruction and counsel: " There is a land to the Westward, and in that land is abundance of various treasures dazzling to the eye, from gold and silver downwards.
Vankola village being on a small rise, the land sloped downwards towards the marshes.
We have also granted to the same men a free common in all our northern wood, that is to say, in the whole forest of Coydebech, and all that common pasture in the marsh of Thalacharn which is called Menecors along the marks and boundaries as it is perambulated, and also all that free common from the rivulet which is named Mackorellis on proceeding upwards as far as Greensladeshead, and so towards the east over Eynonsdown by the way that leads to Brangweys, and from there to Corranshead and so upwards to Horilake and from there to the top of Tadhill, and so downwards to Passenant ’ s Lake and so towards the east to the bounds between Moldhill and that carrucate of land that formerly belonged to Rice, the son of William and downwards to the water of the Taf and so to Heming ’ s well and from there upwards to Horestone and so to Pensernes and from there downwards to Blindwell and so to Rochcomb and so downwards to the ancient whirlpool of the Taf and from there to Howelscroft and so upwards to the Burch and Mere, and so downwards to the long rock which is near our virgate of Thalacharn.
Not until around 6000 BC all of Fennoscandia was free of ice, although the land mass was pressed downwards because of the weight of the ice and partially still under water.
The highest ground at over is to the north east with the land sloping downwards to the south-west.
You have to make your way to the bottom of the level from a precarious platform positioned at the very top, and it can only be safely navigated by floating downwards using the umbrella, because the whole place is full of giant vats of poison ( gruesomely labelled " Drink Me ") that spell instant death if you land in them.
A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle, is a vehicle or craft that can be supported by a cushion of air ejected downwards against a surface close below it, and can in principle travel over any relatively smooth surface, such as gently sloping land, water, or marshland, while having no substantial contact with it.

land and east
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
North and south, east and west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked bay, plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then turning to repeat the process, day after day, week after week.
The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.
Southeast Alaska has a land area of ( sq ), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the portion of the Yakutat Borough lying east of 141 ° West longitude.
The potential disunity of Israel is a constant theme, the greatest threat of disunity coming from the tribes east of the Jordan, and there is even a hint in chapter 22: 19 that the land across the Jordan is unclean and the tribes who live there are of secondary status.
The Reubenites and the Gadites request Moses to assign them the land east of the Jordan.
The land east of the Jordan is divided among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.
During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.
Higher land to the northeast and to the east merges into the Central Highlands of southern Vietnam.
Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
Beginning in fall 2007, the project will inject CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at the rate of one million tons per year, for up to 1. 5 years, into brine up to below the land surface near the Cranfield oil field about east of Natchez, Mississippi.
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
Jarvis Field was at the time a patch of land at the northern point of the Harvard campus, bordered by Everett and Jarvis Streets to the north and south, and Oxford Street and Massachusetts Avenue to the east and west.
The Chianti DOCG covers all the Chianti wine and includes a large stretch of land encompassing the western reaches of the province of Pisa near the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Florentine hills in the province of Florence to the north, to the province of Arezzo in the east and the Siena hills to the south.
It has 2010 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north ( 590 km border ) and Peru in the east and south ( 1, 420 km border ).
An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.
Afghanistan's timber has been greatly depleted, and since the mid-1980s, only about 3 % of the land area has been forested, mainly in the east.
Jimmu realized that they had been defeated because they battled eastward against the sun, so he decided to land on the east side of Kii Peninsula and to battle westward.
The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
The wind direction is from the sea towards the land, or from west towards east.
The Gaza Strip (, ) is a strip of land on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest ( 11 km ) and Israel on the east and north ().
Gibraltar was a landing point of the long-range submarine cable that from Porthcurno, in the United Kingdom ran to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, over land to the east coast of India, then on to Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia ( current Jakarta ), to finally reach Darwin, Australia.

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