...comprehends the Netherlands, Northern Germany, Prussia, Poland, and the greater part of Russia, rising nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. DESERTS, STEPPES, and LANDES. — Although Europe presents no tract of any considerable extent...

...comprehends the Netherlands, Northern Germany, Prussia, Poland, and the greater part of Russia, rising nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. DESERTS, STEFPES, and LANDES Although Europe presents no tract of any considerable extent that...

...comprehends the Netherlands, Northern Germany, Prussia, Poland, and the greater part of Russia, rising nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. Although Europe presents no tract of any considerable extent that may properly be called a desert,...

...present day, all observers have aTeed that the Northern Mountains of Trinidad are but the eastern D extension of the great littoral Cordillera, or serrania,...the delta of the Orinoco. According to the published l observations of Mr. Wall, the secondary and tertiary strata, in the eastern half of this plain at...

...Panama isthmus, where the Naipi and Cupica valleys, reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and are nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. Most of the surface of the isthmus, between latitude 8 degrees and 9 degrees North, is less than...

...Panama isthmus, the Naipi and Cupica valleys stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and are nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. North of the Atrato a serpentine ridge of mountains occurs, which terminates in Cape Tiburón....

...Plateau are wide lowlands lying on both sides of the Mississippi River. They are very gently rolling, and nowhere more than a few hundred feet above the level of the sea. Much of the region is called prairie, from a French word meaning "meadow," — that is, open grassland,...