Upland

Mead and Bateson chose the upland village of Bajoeng Gede for their research, because a lack of iodine in the villagers' diet made them slow of speech.

The boy had never before strayed so far north as this from the nestling hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world.

They had a load of coals behind them—a fuel that could only be got into the upland by this particular route.

The agency says its biggest challenge so far has been providing enough shelter from the rain and cold in this upland area.

Near-synonyms: highland, upcountry

the race of upland giants

Sometimes with secure delight / The upland hamlets will invite,