The North American continental divide runs along the Rockies.

It is, indeed, unfortunate that the Institute of British Architects should have been all these years basking in regal and reginal patronage, and affiliating to itself Honorary and Corresponding Fellows from every part of the world, and have done so very little for the profession in the way of setting up an intrinsic Court of Honour.

Several small mountain ranges and chains, composed of sandstones and clays of Cenozoic age (i.e., formed within about the past 65 million years), rise in the western part of the desert. The arc-shaped Mazartag Mountains, located between the Hotan and Yarkand (Ye’erqiang) river valleys, arch toward the southwest.

If not for her surgical skill, you'd be dead now, so some appreciation may be in order.