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ALP, ALPS, n. [Gr. white; L. albus

A high mountain. The name, it is supposed, was originally given to mountains whose tops were covered with snow, and hence appropriately applied to the mountains of Swisserland; so that by Alps is generally understood the latter mountains. but geographers apply the name to any high mountains.

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