mountain chain

Origin of mountain chain

First recorded in 1815–25

The mountain-chain of Mokattam can be discerned some time previously.

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy |Ida Pfeiffer
No mountain-chain had been crossed by a locomotive before the Alleghanies were outraged, as we see them, here and by this track.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. |Various
To the eastward only was there a break in the mountain-chain, and the dale widened out towards the sea.

Children of the Dawn |Elsie Finnimore Buckley
When in that country, I wondered how any mountain-chain could have supplied such masses, and not have been utterly obliterated.

A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World |Charles Darwin

The mountain-chain of Ararat was considered to be—by the Chaldeans and Hebrews—the place where the ark landed.

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions |T. W. Doane

mountain chain

a series of ranges of mountains