The Declivities were gradual, and there was little fear of even a violent convulsion throwing the ice upon us.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
I hoped to reach the Bokhara, on the West, a river shown on the map sent me by the Commissioner of the district, but after travelling about seven miles to the northward, I saw rising ground before me, which induced me to turn towards our own friendly river the Narran; but it proved to be very far from us, while in my search for it, to my surprise, I found it necessary to descend several considerable Declivities, covered with waterworn pebbles.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Where the north coast of Africa approaches Sicily most nearly, the mountain range which runs along this coast, and forms the edge of the table-land in the interior, sinks down in gentle Declivities, which thus form water-courses of considerable length, to a fertile hill country still covered with olive-gardens and orange-forests.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker