Altogether, the IWS presents a picture of a smart, upstanding, strongly built but not leggy dog, combining great intelligence and rugged endurance with a bold, dashing eagerness of temperament.

To the west of the mountains is the rugged terrain of the Cockpit Country, one of the world's most dramatic examples of karst topography.

The rugged topography of a mountain range is the product of erosion.

Because of their rugged topography and the rigours of the climate, the northern highlands and the Himalayas to the east have been formidable barriers to movement into Pakistan throughout history.

The topography of Iran consists of rugged, mountainous rims surrounding high interior basins.

Because of its rugged mountain topography, Ouray County is also known as the Switzerland of America.

Rolling hills characterize the topography, with the more rugged Boston Mountains lying just to the south.

In particular, the eastern Midwest near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains ; the Great Lakes Basin ; the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri ; the rugged topography of Southern Indiana and far Southern Illinois ; and the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa exhibit a high degree of topographical variety.

The topography is typically very rugged, with elevation changes typically in the 200 – 400 foot range.

Oldham's topography is characterised by its rugged, elevated Pennine terrain.

The southern Maya lowlands which are home to the Lacandón are characterized by rugged karstic topography and sub-tropical rainforest, known as the Selva Lacandona, or the Lacandon Forest.

Alpine glaciers tend to make the topography more rugged, by adding and improving the scale of existing features such as large ravines called cirques and ridges where the rims of two cirques meet called arêtes.

In each island, the rugged topography is concentrated in the northeastern portion and gradually recedes to blunt hills and rolling areas in the south, southeast, and southwest.

The topography is rugged and mountainous, becoming more pronounced towards the central portion of the island.

They are found over continental and insular shelves, preferring the leeward ( away from the direction of the current ) sides of coral reefs with clear water and rugged topography.

The topography is extremely rugged, and these three ranges contain the highest peaks in the southern Ouachitas, including several that rise well over 2300 feet, with the tallest being Raspberry Mountain at 2367 feet.

A major benefit of digital television is the ability to overcome the poor reception caused by New Zealand's rugged topography.

The rugged islands of the park are a reminder of the impressive lakebed topography found beneath the waves.

The US portion of the North Cascades and the adjoining Skagit Range in British Columbia are most notable for their dramatic scenery and challenging mountaineering, both resulting from their steep, rugged topography.

Its rugged topography includes ravines, grassy hillsides, oak-capped knolls, and rocky summits offering glimpses of the Pacific Ocean.

The Giant is known for its expansive clifftop vistas, rugged topography, and microclimate ecosystems.

The park contains rugged lake bed topography that is popular with scuba divers.

When the source of a stream is very high relative to its base level ( high stream gradient ), erosion proceeds rapidly due to the energy of the rapidly moving water and the topography becomes rugged, and it is considered a young stream ( geologically speaking ).

As the moon " grazes " by the Sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places, and not in others.

In areas where there is rugged topography that significantly interrupts the environmental wind flow, the wind can change direction and accelerate parallel to the wind obstruction.

The rugged topography consists of mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers.

It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

Yet he is right when he claims in his autobiography that he drew the real features of the man, his tender and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strength.

Thor Hanover ( Adios-Trustful Hanover ) is a wonderful looking prospect and another good individual, with solid, rugged conformation, good, flat bone and excellent feet.

Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.

Perhaps the lesson we should take from these pages is that the welfare state in England still allows wild scope for all kinds of rugged eccentrics.

The coast is rugged and rocky, with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges.

Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.

In addition to its rugged mountains, the area is known for severe winters with heavy snowfalls.

He is a seventy-five-year-old Spaniard with a rugged face, who comments on events in Oran that he hears about on the radio and in the newspapers.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

To the northeast of these highlands and lowlands is a rugged section with steep mountain-sides, deep narrow coves and valleys, and flat mountain-tops.

The third division of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged mass of mountains forming the largest continuous area of its altitude in the whole continent, little of its surface falling below, while the summits reach heights of 4600 m to 4900 m ( 15, 000 to 16, 000 ft ).

The southern volcanic part of the island is rugged and mountainous, and largely barren.

He was followed in the role by Glenn Causey, who portrayed the rugged frontiersman for 41 years, and whose image is still seen in many of the depictions of Boone featured in the area today.

The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.

With the field rugged computers, GPS and laser rangefinders, it is possible to perform mapping directly in the terrain.

Geologically, Dominica is part of the rugged Lesser Antilles volcanic arc.

Dominica's rugged surface is marked by its volcanic past.

* The Cordillera Central ( also called Sierra del Cibao ) is the island's most rugged and imposing feature and is known in Haiti as the Massif du Nord (" Northern Massif ").

The first third of the hike is through rugged, brushy terrain and gains slightly in elevation.

The hills reach elevations of more than 1, 900 m. The region's most prominent feature is the easterly chain of rugged mountains, the Red Sea Hills, which extend from the Nile Valley eastward to the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea.

Grenada is more rugged and densely foliated than its outlying possessions, but other geographical conditions are more similar.