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high country ((1)) 1 [trans. of Cdn F haut pays] 
the hinterland; the forests of the North and Northwest; the fur country.
- 1903 The second day, however, we came to a surveyor's base-line cut through the woods. Then we followed that as a matter of convenience. The base-line, cut the fall before was the only evidence of man we saw in the high country.
- 1942 "Eh, bien. Well, some time again we winter in the high country, maybe. . . ."
- 1903 The second day, however, we came to a surveyor's base-line cut through the woods. Then we followed that as a matter of convenience. The base-line, cut the fall before was the only evidence of man we saw in the high country.