(thing) by EverybodysCyclopedia Wed Jul 05 2006 at 0:46:00

Roraima, a celebrated mountain in South America, where the boundaries of British Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil meet, 7,800 feet high, flat-topped, with steep, rocky sides, rendering the summit almost inaccessible. More than one explorer has succeeded, however, in reaching the top.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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