Col

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 336

Col (Fr., 'neck'), in Geography, is a depression or pass in a mountain-range. In those parts of the Alps where the French language prevails, the passes are usually named cols—as the Col de Balmé, the Col du Géant, &c.

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