used in Tasmania as the usualword for mountains, in the same way as the word Ranges (q.v.) in Australia.
1876. W. B. Wildey, `Australasia and Oceanic Region,' p.320:
«Two chains of mountains, the eastern and western tiers, runthrough it nearly north and south.»
1891. `The Australasian,' April 4, p. 670, col. 2:
«That stuff as they calls horizontal, a mess of branches and root,
The three barren tiers; and the Craycroft, that 'ud settle a bandicoot.»