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1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 52 Thai had..The hicht apone thair fayis tane.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 781 Syn lychtyt for to gang Towart a hicht and led thar hors a quhill.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xii. 13 b Caused upon a height..towardes the West, a great castle too be builded.

1615 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden (1626) 5 The wind will blow fatnesse from the heights to the hollowes.

1725 in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield (1895) I. 559 They told us they wd travel to the hight of land by black river.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 10 I stood upon a Height about two Hundred Yards from the Shoar.

1803 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. II. 390 The country was..diversified with heights and swells.

1805–9 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec (1812) 36 On this lake, we obtained a full view of those hills which were then, and are now, called the ‘Heighth of land’.

1860 H. Y. Hind Narr. Canad. Red River Exped. II. 225 The Vermilion Pass, which was traversed by Dr. Hector presents on the whole the greatest natural facilities for crossing the mountains without the aid of engineering work, as the rise to the height of land is gradual from both sides.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 201/1 In the north it [sc. the watershed] is found in a stretch of country, called the Height of Land, that lies between the White and the Green Mountains, and gives birth to the Connecticut and a number of smaller streams.

1887 C. Ransome Short Hist. Eng. viii. ii. 349 When morning broke, Montcalm..saw the British drawn up on the Heights of Abraham close to Quebec.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 330/2 Beyond the Height-of-Land the Winnipeg and English rivers flow westward to Lake Winnipeg.

1918 H. Bindloss Agatha's Fortune xxv It was hardly a range of hills, but rather what prospectors call a ‘heighth’ of land.

1930 G. L. Wood Pacific Basin 5 Behind the peninsula of California the height of land is a thousand miles from the sea.