divide †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a watershed.

Quotations

1853

Making their first portage over a "divide," they reached another small stream that ran in quite a different direction. . . .

1957

They followed the headwaters of Cash creek right over the divide into Yukon Territory and finally got caribou on Slim Mountain.