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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 889 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTTE (O. Fr. butte, a hillock or rising ground)  , a word used in the western states of
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North
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America for a
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flat-topped
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hill surrounded by a steep escarpment from which a slope descends to the
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plain . It is sometimes used for " an
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elevation higher than a hill but not high enough for a
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mountain." The
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butte capped by a
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horizontal
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platform of hard
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rock is characteristic of the arid
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plateau region of the
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west of North America .

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