1833 Penny Cycl. I. 436/2 North America possesses an extensive water-system on the Pacific slope.

1855 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea §355 The dry season on the Pacific slopes.

1895 Scribner's Mag. Mar. 270/1 Except certain well-peopled sections on the Pacific slope, and little civilized strips in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, the Great West had but a tenuous white population.

1915 H. B. Niver Elem. Geogr. 167/1 By means of irrigation, the Pacific Slope has become one of the greatest fruit-growing sections of the world.

1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) v. 83 The Indians of the Rocky Mountains give the name Chinook to a wind which brings a very great rainfall to the Pacific slopes.

1992 Cultural Survival Q. Fall 66/3 The Bayano Kuna, who inhabit the Pacific Slope, are still seeking comarca status for their lands.

1870 Age (Melbourne) 15 Sept. 2/7 The ‘Pacific slope’ is again coming into fashion, as rumor has it that the proprietor of extensive mills in the city has taken his departure on a visit to the Chilian paradise, Callao, without first informing his friends and creditors of his intention.

1901 D. B. Hall & A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf 38 There is such a thing known in Australia, America, and Canada as ‘the Pacific slope’, which, being interpreted, means a hurried departure, down to these regions [sc. Tahiti] of gentlemen who find these countries too hot to hold them.

1902 W. S. Walker Zealandia's Guerdon 326 He [sc. the detective] has packed so many ‘confidence men’ off to penitentiary that the others have done the ‘Pacific Slope’ in various directions, chiefly towards Australia.

1938 R. Gilkison Early Days in Dunedin xiii. 133 In the 'seventies and 'eighties many fraudulent debtors, embezzlers and rich thieves escaped from New Zealand before arrest, by doing what came to be known as the ‘Pacific Slope’.

1956 R. Gore Levins 186 Tetley had done what in those days was termed ‘The Pacific Slope’, and was last heard of in South America.