Meanings of natural elevation in английском

Some have suggested that it might be partly a natural elevation.

He was apparently tired, for, seeing a slight natural elevation under a branching elm tree, he sat down, and looked thoughtfully about him.

Each would perceive his own importance, and his own interest, and would feel that natural elevation of character which the consciousness of property inspires.

"Beaver Head," the reader will recollect, comes from a natural elevation in that region resembling the head of a beaver.