1807 J. Mease Geol. Acct. U.S. 59 Whatever of saline..the soil of the upland contains, is thus floated or rolled along to the low lands, and constitutes with proportional diversity and mixture, the intermontane soil.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Intermontane.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 362/2 The inter~montane basins and the piedmontese plains that slope eastward from the Rocky Mountains in middle latitudes are treeless.

1920 L. V. Pirsson Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) I. 269 Intermontane Plateaus.

1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xviii. 297/1 The Tertiary-filled intermontane basin is 50 miles long and averages 15 miles in width.

1901 Science 8 Mar. 396/1 The erosion of narrow valleys in the floor of the weak-rock intermont peneplains.

1911 J. L. Myres Dawn of Hist. iv. 91 We are..concerned..with the intermont plains and upland valleys which sustained the old Medes and Persians.

1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 87 27 Coarse detritus which came to rest in the intermont basins.

1959 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Outl. Geomorphol. (ed. 2) xx. 285 Plains are here in a much less dominant rôle; we have an intermont-basin landscape as compared with a true Inselberge landscape.

1900 Congress. Rec. 24 Jan. 1147/2 Polygamy..was taught by the Mormon Church throughout the whole of the intermountain country as a religious duty.

1903 Science 12 June 950/1 The study of the anthropology of the Indian races in this intermountain region.

1927 Glasgow Herald 21 May 8 This fungus..attacks both the green or Oregon and the blue or Colorado Douglas [fir], as well as the intermountain variety.

1962 G. MacEwan Blazing Old Cattle Trail xxv. 167 Ranching of western Canada's prairie, foothill and inter~mountain ranges was just two or three decades old.