The water source is on east acclivity of the Vijenac Hill ( 1, 375 m ), in the gorge which is exponed to Ciganska planina ( Gipsy's Mountain ), on the significant lower posision compared with Vrbanja river.
12.
The village stands on a bold acclivity, adjacent to a tributary of the river Exe, 2 miles S of the boundary with Somerset, 3 W S W of Bampton, and 6?N N W of Tiverton r . station; is large and straggling; and has a post-office under Tiverton.
13.
Notwithstanding however the contiguity of this road to a gentleman's place of residence and to lime rocks, the chippings of whose stones must necessarily afford abundant materials for its repair, it was so rugged and full of ruts as to render it, in addition to the steepness of its acclivity, extremely incommodious to the traveller.
14.
All three listed words are to be found in ancient lexicons of the Iranian languages : Parthian " apar " Pahlavi / Middle-Pers . abar / a?ar = " up, on, over " and " higher, superior " ( also abraz " acclivity " ); abarag / a?arag " superior ", abargar / a?argar " god, divinity ", abarmanig / a?armanig " noble "; apar amatan " to surpass ", apar kardan / apar handa?tan " to attack ".
15.
The grounds of belief rest upon the following circumstances to which I find allusions are made in a St . Lucia newspaper in 1831 :'It is alleged that the de Taschers were among the French families that settled in St . Lucia after the Peace of 1763; that upon a small estate on the acclivity of Morne Paix Bouche ( which was called La Cauzette ), where the future Empress first saw light on the 23rd of June of that year; and they continued to reside there until 1771, at which period the father was selected for the important office of the Intendant of Martinique, whither he immediately returned with his family .'
16.
See the 1902 " Manual of instructions for the survey of public lands . . . which included the oath to be taken by assistant surveyors : " . . . we will level the chain upon even and uneven ground, and plumb the tally pins . . . " U . S . Supreme Court Reports from 1901 says " . . . the mode of measuring will be to level the chain, as is usually done with chain carriers when measuring up and down mountain sides, or over other steep acclivities or depressions, so as to approximate, to a reasonable extent, horizontal measurement, this being the general practice of surveying wild lands in Tennessee . " " Leveling the chain " can be done by physically keeping the chain horizontal, or by trigonometry on cliffs and steep river banks based on use of transits or other optical instruments.
