ALLEGHANY, or THE ALLEGHANIES (a spelling now more common than Allegheny)

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ALLEGHANY, or THE ALLEGHANIES (a spelling now more common than Allegheny) , a name formerly used of all the Appalachian Mountains (q.v.), U.S.A., and now sometimes of all that system lying W. and S. of the Hudson river, being steep and narrow-crested in

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

(150o-r800 ft.), and in

Maryland

MARYLAND

, Virginia and West Virginia higher (3000 ft.-4473 ft). and with broader crests. Another usage applies to the ridges ("the Alleghany Ridges") parallel to the Blue

Ridge

; the north-western part of this region is sometimes called the Alleghany Front or the Front of the Alleghany

Plateau

. The Alleghany

Plateau

is the north-westernmost division of the Appalachian system; it is an eroded mass of sedimentary rock sloping north-westward to the Prairie and Lake Plains and reaching south-west from the south-western part of New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

state through Tennessee and into

Alabama

ALABAMA

.

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