Sometimes they occupy the approaches to tablelands, the narrowest points of gorges, or the fords of rivers; sometimes almost inaccessible mountain tops or important points on ridges; and it may be noticed that, where two important nuraghi are not visible from one another, a small one is interpolated, showing that there was a system of signalling from one to another.
On the higher, arid, sun-parched tablelands of San Juan.
Per annum, the tablelands 32 in., and the western interior has an average as low as 20 in.
The climate of the Northern Territory is extremely hot, except on the elevated tablelands...
The flat lands which extend from the base of the Alpine foothills to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, assume the character either of dry deserts, as in the Aral-Caspian depression, or of low tablelands, as in central Russia and E.
