Traffic on several local rivers, the highways of this largely roadless province, was halted.

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He wandered and hitchhiked from prairie to desert to forest to roadless area.

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Without decent transport on Mongolia's roadless steppe, a ready market for livestock and processed goods was no longer assured, particularly for remote herders.

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Landmarks such as the Washington Monument showed up submerged in bodies of water, and big chunks of the globe appeared as roadless wastelands.

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