Alleghenies

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• A team of axmen had been cutting a path about twenty-five feet wide for the surveyors, and from the Alleghenies' peaks, Mason could see the curvature of this vista as it followed the parallel of latitude.

  Academic text (2006)

• Bush came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century.

  Blog text (15)

• Or else they stopped at the Alleghenies.

  How the West Was Won (1962)

• Those who stay east of the Alleghenies.

  Unconquered (1947)

• Perhaps someday he'll come west of the Alleghenies.

  Unconquered (1947)

• And there are very few King's muskets west of the Alleghenies.

  Unconquered (1947)

• They were now at the Alleghenies, and the King had forbidden settlements west of these mountains.

  Academic text (2006)

• The land below looked like Ohio now, flatter than the Alleghenies, and she saw a smoky city that could be Akron or Youngstown.

  Fiction book (2002)

• I tell her to remember that it was one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Alleghenies and that by the end of the American Revolution, when veterans began pouring westward over the Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River, Mero was often referred to as a thriving village.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The scenic drive takes you through the stunning Alleghenies, where the views are breathtaking.

Synonyms

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Allegheny Mountains

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A mountain range in the eastern United States from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia

is the same feature but expressed using an alternative regional name

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Etymology