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Farnham, H S, 107 Upland Road...
...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...
...decision of the Corporation last summer that seventy acres of the Bussey Farm should be transferred to the Arnold Arboretum was a severe blow to the Agricultural Department. Not only was the farm deprived by the act of all the upland which is suitable for tests and experiments but a not inconsiderable source of income to the department...
...said that the most noticeable feature of the geography of New England was the level upland surface, which forms all the rural part of the country. This upland slopes gradually down from a height of 1400 feet in New Hampshire to the coast line, where it sinks into the sea. Although generally level, this long stretch of land is broken by mountains, sometimes isolated and sometimes in groups, and also by valleys running toward the sea. When travelling through the valleys one does not realize how level the country really is, but from a high point of view the comparatively...
...upland has been worn to its present condition by the great glaciers which spread over all New England, covering even the highest peaks of the White Mountains. The lowlands, like the valley of the Connecticut River, have been dug out to a lower level because they were formed of soft material. There still exist in New England many traces of the ice period such as the rounded rocks of the mountain tops, and the large boulders found everywhere...