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  Lake District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It culminates in the height of Red Screes overlooking the Kirkstone Pass.
They comprise the Wastwater Screes overlooking Wasdale, the Glaramara ridge overlooking Borrowdale, the three tops of Crinkle Crags, Bowfell and Esk Pike overlooking Langdale and Scafell Pike in the centre, at 3,209 feet the highest ground in England.
It provides a home for the red squirrel and colonies of sundew, one of the few carnivorous plants native to Britain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_District   (3550 words)

  
 Alps - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Alps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The jagged edges and rocky screes are the result of atmospheric erosion.
Many Alpine glaciers – for example, those in the Rhône valley, the Bernese Alps, and in the Swiss Grindelwald region – retreated during the 20th century, owing to a series of relatively mild winters and light snowfall.
Animals inhabiting the Alpine region include the red deer (Cervus elaphus), the goat-like chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), the ibex (Capra ibex), the Alpine hare (Lepus timidus), the wildcat (Felis silvestris), the marmot (Marmota marmota), and the European lynx (Lynx lynx), which was reintroduced into the Swiss Alps in 1970.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Alps   (2688 words)

  
 American Primrose Society (Primulas) - Seed List
These tall, stately plants inhabit wet meadows, screes or bogs.
resembles a red-hot poker with scarlet calyces and blue violet flowers giving the appearance of a blue poker with a red tip.
All species are propagated from seed or division.
www.backyardgardener.com /apsseed.html   (1214 words)

  
 GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS
That, the trivial cause of so many momentous happenings, was the one thing of which details evaded him.
But he resaw the glorious hump of the Gable (he had never visited the Lake District since), and the mouse-gray depths of Wastwater under the Screes; he could resmell the washed air after heavy rain, and refollow the ribbon of the pass across to Sty Head.
So clearly it lingered, that time of dizzy happiness, those evening strolls by the waterside, her cool voice and her gay laughter.
www.gutenberg.net.au /ebooks05/0500111h.html   (14376 words)

  
 desert garden ayers rock
whence it permeates through the scree of the moraine.
DETAILS Day 1 - Uluru, Ayers Rock Resort, 2 nights You will be met at Ayers Rock Airport and taken to the Desert Garden Hotel, a 4 star hotel within the Ayers Rock Resort ñ a complex of five...
was born and raised in the red rock country of southern Utah...
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