When at last I came out on the flat tableland of the amba, I saw at a glance that Tanus was rallying and regrouping his infantry.

It was a flat tableland like that above Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, but of reduced proportions; at least so it appeared seen from the islet.

Below is a Gothic fantasy of plunging gorges and isolated mesas - flat tablelands with steep edges - all in paintbox colours.

Across the flat tableland are almost 100 red and orange monolithic sandstone buttes and mesas jutting skywards.

Cayke and her friends went to the edge of the flat tableland and looked down the steep hillside to the plains below.

This path ran up a water-cut kloof through a patch of thorns to a flat tableland that was part of the Ceza stronghold.

Before beginning a full-day tour of the island, we stopped for picnic provisions in the modern section of Visby, which lies discreetly tucked on the flat tableland above and behind the city wall.

It was a flat tableland, roughly circular, scarcely half a kilometer across, a desolation of black rock, stunted trees and underbrush, and gray volcanic ash.

About 15 miles west of Taos, a road with no name tapers off into the flat tableland beneath the Tres Orejas, three small volcanic peaks.

How many ages had the rains and the stream been at work to scoop out from the flat tableland this deep and broad valley?