"Water parting" Quotes from Famous Books
... to appear in books of geography; and yet how convenient it must be admitted to be; how much more so than 'line of water parting', which it has succeeded; meaning, as I need hardly tell you it does, not merely that which sheds the waters, but that which divides them ('wasserscheide'); and being applied to that exact ridge and highest line in a mountain region, where the waters of that region ... — English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |