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Height of Land 
1 a region of high ground forming a watershed to the north of the western end of Lake Superior.
See also: Hauteur des Terres
- 1800 (1922) In the former part of the day, we crossed small lakes and ponds, connected by several portages, and then came over the height of land.
- 1821 (1900) Kamanistiquia River takes its Rise from the Height of Land towards Lake Nipigan.
- 1922 All over the Lake Superior country, from the height of land north of the lake as far south as Minnesota.
- 1958 A lot of water has flowed this way and that way off the Height of Land since I last saw Nahdaweh.
2 the elevated plateau forming the western boundary separating Labrador and Quebec.
- 1887 The latter portion of Ungava dist. is an elevated plateau, more or less broken yet nowhere abruptly so, and known throughout the entire country as the "Height of Land."
- 1905 Trappers who have caught sight of the `height of land' say that it is for the most part a vast table-land, barren, strewn with enormous boulders, scarce in game, swarming with flies, with vegetables surviving only in the hollows and ravines--a sullen, forsaken waste.
- 1963 The height of land is at Mile 150; there the southbound trains start their long run down to Seven Islands. . . .
- 1800 (1922) In the former part of the day, we crossed small lakes and ponds, connected by several portages, and then came over the height of land.