| Denis Louis Cottineau de Kloguen - 1806 - 452 pages
...land which joins a peninsula to a.cuauueut. B S GEOGRAPHY. Q. What is a cape or promontory ? A. It is a point of land extending into the sea. Q. What is a continent ? A. Continents are the largest tracts of land on the globe. Q. What do you mean by a volcano... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...promontory is a hill or point of land extending self into the sea. Q. What is a cape ? A. A cape is a point of land extending into the sea. Q. What is a ccasl ? A. A coast or shun is that part of a country which bor?rs on the sea side. Q. In what manner... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 188 pages
...of land entirely surrounded by water. d. What is an Archipelago! A. A sea containing many islands. Q. What is a Cape? A. A point of land extending into the sea. . 1' LESSON 8. OP MOUNTAINS, &c. Q. What is n Mountain? A. A tract of land raised up to a great height.... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1851 - 192 pages
...of land entirely surrounded by water. Q. What is an Archipelago? A. A sea containing many islands. Q. What is a Cape? A. A point of land extending into the sea. LESSON 8. OF MOUNTAINS, ETC. Q. What is a Mountain ? A. A tract of land raised up to a great height.... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1851 - 348 pages
...Islands? A. Portions of land, entirely surrounded by water, as the British Islands, or Newfoundland. 57. What is a Cape ? A. A point of land extending into the sea, as the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn. 58. What is a Promontory ? Some Canes and Promontories have... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1853 - 354 pages
...? • A. Tracts of land, entirely surrounded by water, as the British Islands, or Newfoundland. 57. What is a Cape? A. A point of land extending into the sea, as the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn. 58 What is a Promontory ? GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS. Some Capes... | |
| Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1854 - 184 pages
...PENINSULAS, CAPES, CONTINENTS. Q. What is a Peninsula ? A. A portion of land, nearly surrounded by water. Q. What is a Cape ? A. A point of land extending into the sea or ocean. Q. What is a Promontory ? A. A high point of land extending into the sea. Q. What is an Isthmus... | |
| James Monteith - 1854 - 188 pages
...portion of land almost surrounded by water. Q. What is an Isthmns ? A. A neck joining two bodies of land. Q. What is a Cape ? A. A point of land extending into the water. Q. If the Cape be high and rocky, what is it called ? A. A Promontory. LESSON IV. • Q. What... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1860 - 360 pages
...Islands ? A. Tracts of land entirely surrounded by water, as the British Islands, or Newfoundland. 57. What is a Cape ? A. A point of land extending into the sea, as the Cape of Good Hope, and Capo Horn. 58. What is a Promontory ? GEOGRAPHICAL DEFI.MTIOXS. Some... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1860 - 174 pages
...A. A narrow neck of land -which joins two parts of a continent, or a peninsula to a continent. 12. What is a cape? A. A point of land extending into the sea. A high cape is sometimes called a Promontory. The terms Point, Head, Naze, Ness, and Mull, also indicate... | |
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