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The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.
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The most mountainous districts lie inland from the head of the Gulf of Guinea ( Adamawa, etc.
In addition, as of early 1988 the government had lost control of several mountainous districts in Kurdistan where, since 1983, dissident Kurds have cooperated militarily with Iran.
The region is mainly flat and hilly, with small mountainous areas in the most eastern and southern districts.
Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground.
Two high and well-defined ranges divide the island into three districts, of which the northern is mountainous, the central undulating, and the southern low-lying.
The mountainous districts of western Hubei, in particular Shennongjia, with their cooler summers, attract numerous visitors from Wuhan and other lowland cities.
When the school was first established in the 1920s, parliamentarians referred to the founding vision as " a school for the benefit of the most isolated children, for example of lighthouse keepers and remote shepherds living upon small islands or in mountainous districts ".
The county slopes very gradually from the mountainous districts of the Southern Uplands in the north, down to the sea ; lofty hills alternating in parts with stretches of tableland or rich fertile holms.
Jaji and Jani Khel districts are largely mountainous with much smaller inhabited valleys.
Two of the least mountainous districts, Urgun and neighboring Barmal have nearly 90, 000 inhabitants each.
Sekong is split administratively into four districts: Thateng on the Bolaven Plateau, Lamam in the lowland plain, and Dakchung and Kaleum in the mountainous areas bordering Vietnam.
The eastern districts of Dakchung and Kaleum, in particular, are characterized by mostly mountainous terrain which is rugged and difficult to access.
| Occasionally, cracks appear in soft ground, and rockfalls and small slope failures take place in mountainous districts.
and rockfalls and small slope failures take place in mountainous districts.
Arabic Thought and its Place in History, De Lacy O ' Leary, London: Kegan, Paul, p. 227-8 says: " Gradually the Arabs spread all along North Africa and down to the desert edge, their tribes as a rule occupying the lower ground, whilst the older population had its chief centres in the mountainous districts.
Banditry refers to the life and practice of bandits which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as " one who is proscribed or outlawed ; hence, a lawless desperate marauder, a brigand: usually applied to members of the organized gangs which infest the mountainous districts of Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, and Turkey.
Beitou is the most mountainous and highest of Taipei's districts, encompassing a meadow with rivers running through the valley which have abundant steam rising from them ; the result of geothermal warming.
The districts of An Lão in the north-west, Vĩnh Thạnh in the west, and Vân Canh in the south-west are mostly mountainous.
* Gendarmerie ( rural police ) were tasked with frontier law enforcement to include small communities, rural districts, and mountainous terrain.
A mountainous area, ranging in altitude from, Kinnaur is one of the smallest districts in India by population.
Also, the districts are the mountainous " Pha Phlung " (" far flung "), the infertile " Sukkondat " (" suck on that "), the hyper " Buhng Lunhg " (" bung lung "; Australian slang ' bung ', meaning ' failed '), and the exotic " Thong On ".
The Muong people inhabit the mountainous region of northern Vietnam, concentrated in Hoa Binh Province and the mountainous districts of Thanh Hoa Province.
The Shikoku was bred mainly for hunting deer and boar in the mountainous districts of Kochi Prefecture.
mountainous and England
Idaho is a mountainous state with an area larger than that of all of New England.
In Mexico the Ferrocarril Mexicano ( FCM ) used Fairlies on a mountainous stretch of line between Mexico City and Veracruz, where 49 enormous 0-6-6-0 Fairlies weighing about 125 tons apiece were imported from England.
“ Fell ” ( from Old Norse fell, fjall, " mountain ") is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, and parts of northern England.
As the most mountainous region of England, the Lake District is the area most closely associated with the sport of fell running, which takes its name from the fells of the district.
During a journey to England, France and Belgium, he studied the new railways and subsequently published his ideas of adapting this technology to mountainous regions in some papers receiving wide attention in the industry.
The Northern Rivers region is bounded by the Tasman Sea to the east, the New England region to the west where the Great Dividing Range forms a mountainous boundary.
As a result, Spain's population, and especially Castile's, never dense on the generally very dry, rocky, mountainous peninsula, grew much more slowly than France's ; by Louis XIV's time, France had a population greater than that of Spain and England combined.
Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from England in the west to Ural Mountains in the east.
He continued to paint scenes set in Italy, as well as England and Wales, and his death in 1782 came just as large numbers of artists began to travel to Wales, and later the Lake District and Scotland in search of mountainous views, both for oil paintings and watercolours which were now starting their long period of popularity in Britain, both with professionals and amateurs.
Bothies are to be found in remote, mountainous areas of Scotland, northern England, Ireland, and Wales.
Bunkhouses are usually found in mountainous areas, such as the Scottish Highlands, as well as rural areas in England and Wales, for example at All Stretton.
mountainous and Wales
Old mountainous Wales, paradise of the bard,
This was largely a matter of circumstance, as Wales had none of the needed materials in suitable combination, and the forested, mountainous countryside was not amenable to industrialisation.
Palmer's first hand impressions of the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales buoyed his interest in the narrow gauge concept which would prove to be advantageous while conquering the mountainous regions of the Southwest.
Germanus led the native Britons to a victory against a Pictish and Saxon army, at a mountainous site near a river, of which Mold in North Wales is the traditional location.
The section of the M4 in South Wales has to thread its way through mountainous terrain and built-up areas, so there are some unusual junction layouts:
The A55 route in North Wales is now the usual way to get from Chirk to Holyhead, avoiding the mountainous A5 route through Snowdonia and instead going via the much gentler Cheshire Plain and along the coast.
The coastline consists alternately of cliffs and stretches of sand and the area generally is the most mountainous in Wales ; a large part of the Snowdonia National Park lies within it.
Meirionnydd is a coastal and mountainous region of Wales.
The mountainous stronghold of Snowdonia formed the nucleus of that realm and would become the last redoubt of independent Wales — only overcome in 1283.
It is located in a largely mountainous coastal region on the South Coast of New South Wales.
The nominate subspecies is native to cool, deep soiled, mountainous areas between 850m and 1500 m in Victoria and New South Wales ; E. d. tasmaniensis is found in most higher-altitude parts of Tasmania apart from the south-west.
Wales () is a generally mountainous country which is part of the United Kingdom.
Much of Wales is mountainous, particularly in three main regions: Snowdonia in the north west, the Cambrian Mountains in mid Wales, and the Brecon Beacons in the south.
The South Wales Valleys were Britain's only mountainous coalfield.
Within the UK most of the main downhill tracks are in Scotland or Wales, as these countries are more mountainous.
The largest open road cyclosportive in the UK is the Verenti Dragon Ride Wales, held each June over a challenging 200 km mountainous course in South Wales.
Predominantly single track, the line runs between Ebbw Valley Parkway station ( where southbound journeys to Cardiff Central begin, and northbound journeys end ), in the northeast of the mountainous South Wales valleys, and the South Wales Main Line.
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