inland

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The original untamed Florida was a brutal, weird place: coasts choked with impenetrable mangroves; inlands flooded and bristling with razor-sharp grass.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2021

What is interesting is that in the prehistoric human bones we find, the remains of people in the inlands never show any sign of having had a famine.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2012

Van der Leeuw: Australia’s inlands are very dry and have a relatively low yield in edible things.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2012

All the colonizing, planting and fighting was done on the coast; the forested inlands were left to tribes, both of native Indians and of runaway African slaves, known locally as maroons.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2012

The Indians told us that the crocodiles came from the inlands, where they had been buried in the dried mud of the savannahs.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von