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Great Divide
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the great watershed in the Rockies which divides the rivers flowing west to the Pacific from those flowing east and north; the Great Divide.
See: continental divide
Quotations
1905
Abbot Pass is a narrow V-shaped notch, cut deep between the lofty walls of Mt. Lefroy and Mt. Victoria, upon the Great Divide.
1958
The former chief, after many hardships, joined a band of refugees on the Dease River near the Great Divide.