Pennines \pɛ.nin\ féminin pluriel
Après l’accession de l’armée Britannique, Vitellius, bien pourvu d’armes & d’argent, résolut de faire marcher ſes troupes par deux chemins & sous deux généraux. Il chargea Fabius Valens d’attirer à son parti Gaules, ou sur leur refus de les ravager, & de déboucher en Italie par les Alpes Cotiennes : il ordonna à Cecina de gagner la crête des Pennines par le plus court chemin. Valens eut l’élite de l’armée inférieure avec l’Aigle de la cinquième légion, & assez de cohortes & de cavalerie pour lui faire une armée de quarante mille hommes.— (Tacite, Histoires, traduction de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782)
Pennines \pɛ.nin\ féminin pluriel
Pennines \Prononciation ?\
PENNINE CHAIN, an extensive system of hills in the north of England. The name is probably derived from the Celtic pen, high, appearing in the Apennines of Italy and the Pennine Alps. The English system is comprised within the following physical boundaries. On the N. a well-marked depression, falling below 500 ft. in height, between the upper valleys of the Irthing and the south Tyne, from which it is known as the Tyne Gap, separates the Pennines from the system of the Cheviots. On the N.E., in Northumberland, the foothills extend to the North Sea. On the N.W. the Eden valley forms part of the boundary between the Pennines and the hills of the Lake District, and the division is continued by the upper valley of the Lune. The Pennines thus cover parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire, while the southern foothills extend into Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire.— (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911)
Whitley Castle, 2 m. N., was a Roman fort, the original name of which is not known, guarding the road which ran along the South Tyne valley and over the Pennines. It has no connexion with Alston itself.— (« Alston », dans Encyclopædia Britannica)