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

It was a bright summer afternoon: the estuary of Poole Harbour lay extended before me; its broad expanse studded with inlands of sand and furze bushes, of which Brownsea is the most considerable.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 by Various