Chariot of the Gods
. So the Greeks called Sierra Leoʹne, in Africa, a ridge of mountains of great height. A sierra means a saw, and is applied to a ridge of peaked mountains.
“Her palmy forests, mingling with the skies,
Leona’s rugged steep behind us flies.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.