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Hauteur des Terres

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a region of high ground forming a watershed to the north of the western end of Lake Superior.

See: Height of Land(def. 1)

Quotations

1800
Having passed this we came to Portage des Hauteur des Terres [Land's Height], which is about 700 paces.
1897
Hauteur des Terres (or de Terre) is a more general name of the high land, full of small lakes, which occupies the region between the waters of the Pigeon r., flowing eastward, and those of Rainy r. taking the opposite direction.