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continental watershed
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.
Quotations
1905
And the familiar forms of the great peaks of the Continental watershed, Stephen and the Cathedral . . . with the great ice-clad helmet of Mt. Temple shining resplendently above the line of giants. . . .