Crossword-Solution: CIME 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Par-delà, l'échelonnement des assises intermédiaires de la chaîne, et, au dernier plan, l'extrême cime des monts, bleuis par le lointain, se confondent avec l'azur du ciel.

Magnifiques, ces arbres, avec leurs troncs puissants, leurs branches chaudes de sève nouvelle, leur feuillage épais, s'entremêlant de l'un à l'autre pour former une cime de verdure que les rayons du soleil ne parvenaient pas à percer.

But the parish priest, with all other churchmen, was exempt from the state taxes, although obliged to pay a proportion of the _décimes_,[Footnote: _Décime_, in the singular, was an extraordinary tax levied on ecclesiastical revenue for some object deemed important.

Without cultivating trees with a milky sap, a sufficient quantity of caoutchouc might be collected in the missions of the Orinoco alone for the consumption of civilized Europe.* (* We saw in Guiana, besides the jacio and the curvana, two other trees that yield caoutchouc in abundance; on the banks of the Atabapo the guamaqui with jatropha leaves, and at Maypures the cime.) In the kingdom of New Grenada some successful attempts have been made to make boots and shoes of this substance without a seam.

This name was translated by the interpreters, "he is the loftiest tree." It seems properly to mean "he is a great tree-top," from _karenha_, or _garenha_, which Bruyas renders _cime d'arbre_, and _kowane_, great.