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Alleghenies   /ˌæləgˈeɪniz/  /ˈæləgˌɛniz/   Listen
Alleghenies

noun
1.
The western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia.  Synonym: Allegheny Mountains.





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"Alleghenies" Quotes from Famous Books



... hope to explore the lower lakes of Canada, and also the regions lying to the eastward as far as Nova Scotia; in the autumn I shall resume my excursions on the coast and in the Alleghenies, and shall pass a part of the winter in the Carolinas. I will soon write to Monsieur Brongniart concerning my plans for next year. If the Museum were desirous to aid me in my undertakings, I should like to make a journey of exploration next summer ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz
... that all the country west of the Alleghenies belonged to them and they disputed the English possession at every point. When Washington was only twenty-one years old he was sent to beg the French not to interfere with the English, but he had a hard journey with no ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... Lawrence; at Detroit, on the Great Lakes; at New Orleans and other points on the Mississippi. They had also begun to build a line of forts along the Ohio River, which, when completed, would connect their northern and southern colonies, and thus secure to them the whole country west of the Alleghenies. They expected to conquer the East as well, to erase Virginia, New England, and all other English colonial titles from the map, and in their place to put the ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery


Words linked to "Alleghenies" :   pa, mountain range, chain of mountains, Keystone State, WV, range, Old Dominion, range of mountains, mountain chain, Allegheny Mountains, VA, Appalachians, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mountain State, West Virginia, Appalachian Mountains, Old Dominion State, chain


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