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height of land

• a watershed.

  See also: Height of Land  land's height  

  • Perhaps a translation of the Canadian-French term Hauteur des terres.

  • 1732  (1947)  [. . . since these people live in the neighbourhood of the height of land, they go sometimes to Trois Riviéres. . . .]
  • 1791  (1904-1908)  His Majesty's ungranted lands . . . from the Height of Land passing through the Junction of the River St. Johns and Madawasca, and intersecting the River St. Lawrence is 11,936,163 Acres.
  • 1870  On one side it is sheltered by the chain of hills which forms the height of land, while on the other it is far enough removed from the coast to be exempt from the injurious sea breezes.
  • 1965  [It] is one of eight ARDA-designated "rural research regions" . . . on a height of land above the only incorporated town in the county, Alexandria.