water parting

Historical Examples of water parting

• To the right is the water-parting chain of the Himalayas which we had seen from Tradum.

  Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)

  Sven Hedin

• Our track led along the water-parting between the Ituri and Ihuru rivers.

  In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria

  Henry Morton Stanley

• The delimitation is thus a quite natural and scientific one, coinciding pretty closely to the water-parting of the two countries.

  In the Border Country

  W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett

• The zigzag line described is not a range of mountains, but a water-parting, which is quite another matter.

  Fragments of Earth Lore

  James Geikie

• The water-parting was adopted as the boundary under the arbitration of King Edward of Britain.

  Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 1

  Charles Reginald Enock