See also:

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

ALLEGHANY, or THE ALLEGHANIES (a spelling now more See also:

• COMMON

common than See also:

• ALLEGHENY

Allegheny)  , a name formerly used of all the Appalachian Mountains (q.v.), U.S.A., and now sometimes of all that See also:

• SYSTEM

system lying W. and S. of the See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson See also:

• RIVER

river, being steep and narrow-crested in See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania (150o-r800 ft.), and in See also:

• MARYLAND

Maryland, See also:

• VIRGINIA
• VIRGINIA, or VERGINIA
• VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Virginia and See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Virginia higher (3000 ft.-4473 ft). and with broader crests . Another usage applies to the ridges ("the See also:

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

Alleghany Ridges") parallel to the See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

Ridge; the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-western See also:

• PART

part of this region is sometimes called the Alleghany Front or the Front of the Alleghany See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

Plateau . The Alleghany Plateau is the north-westernmost See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the Appalachian system; it is an eroded See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of sedimentary See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock sloping north-westward to the See also:

• PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow)

Prairie and See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Plains and reaching See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-west from the south-western part of New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state through See also:

• TENNESSEE

Tennessee and into See also:

• ALABAMA

Alabama .