Word: headlands
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...heard the real voices of the continent? Frost and Robinson in New England, Sandburg and Lindsay in the Midwest. The Far West has been silent since Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, John Muir. Now Jeffers is heard, unmistakably powerful, individual, a true racial poet chanting on his high Pacific headland...
...Warren K. Blodgett has loaned a painting attributed to Daubigny, representing a dark headland standing our against a light sea and a gray...
...Moselle, like the Seine, meanders through a flat upland. The Moselle offers a good example of a river cutting itself off by drilling through a narrow headland. Its tributaries have eaten their way back and have drawn into the Moselle waters which formerly flowed into the Meuse...
...Department of Geology is preparing to send a party to Gay's Head, Martha's Vineyard, during the April recess, to examine the formation of the cliffs on that headland. The clay and sand strata of this section abound in fossil bones of the order of Cetaceans, to which the whale and the walrus belong. There are also leaf-beds of a representative of the order to which the gigantic red-woods of California belong...
...Articles I-VIII settles by compromise the three mile limit and headland question.- (a) A compromise is the best way of settling the different claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...