Several Promontoriesand Bays, and a Peninsula, described and named.
On one side, for nearly the entire length, it was bounded by steep hills, for the greater part clothed with forest and undergrowth crowned by noble promontories and headlands.
Each vessel that swept through the Heads at midnight, or marked the white-walled mansions and pine-crowned promontories rise faintly out of the pearl-hued dawn, was for me a volume filled with romance and mystery.
Between the promontories are small sandy or rocky beaches.
Between San Juan de Lima and Las Penas the mountains extend to the sea; in this region rocky promontories form precipitous cliffs dropping into the sea.
But considering the form of the irregularly branching valleys, and of the narrow promontories projecting into them from the platforms, we are compelled to abandon this notion.
The road followed the coast; every now and then crossing promontories covered by fine forests.
From the mountains we had a very striking view of this white and brilliant aerial-field, which sent arms up the valleys, leaving islands and promontories in the same manner, as the sea does in the Chonos archipelago and in Tierra del Fuego.
Among the three principal promontories of Britain, that which derives its name from Cantium[422] is most distinguished.
It is full of wooded islands and rocky promontories projecting into the water and overshading it with their trees.
Its shores are clean and bold, with little promontories running far into the water, and several small islands.
Beyond, to the east, black rocky promontories came in sight, one after the other, beetling over the sea.
The ends of these promontories are nearly perpendicular, and their tops so high in the air, that you cannot look at the village below without something like a feeling of apprehension.
The downs do not come out in promontories so often as they do on the sides of the Avon.
Here one of these promontories would slope down, and the very next one would slope upward as it advanced across the open space.
Lowest of its promontories is the roughly hewn Grizzly Peak, which is flanked on the east by the well rounded summits and smoothly planed sides of Mount Broderick and Liberty Cap.
The depths and distances are accentuated by the promontories being above the observer and the canyons far below.
Three Brothers~, massively piled promontories of the north wall, are least harshly seen from this road.
For a full hour those Plains simulated the ocean, down to whose limitless expanse of purple, cliff, rocks, and promontoriesswept down.
The sinking sun is out of sight behind the western Sierras, and all the pine-hung promontories on this side of the water are rich indigo, just reddened with lake, deepening here and there into Tyrian purple.
On the coast of Kincardineshire, an illustration was afforded at the close of the last century, of the effect of promontories in protecting a line of low shore.
To imagine all the lands to be collected together in equatorial latitudes, and a few promontoriesonly to project beyond the thirtieth parallel, as represented in the annexed maps (figs.
The black-fringed promontories of the rim, bold and rugged, leagues apart, stood out over the void.
Copple and I were to go down to the first promontories under the rim.
Into my mind flashed a picture of the many little pockets beaten by rains into the shelves and promontories of the canyon rim.
Slopes below us narrowed to promontoriesand along these we kept our gaze.
We look around us, and behold the hills and promontories where the anxious eyes of our fathers first saw the places of habitation and of rest.
It was not too far down to be seen from an elevation like this, but it was hidden behind the promontories by which the fiord was contracted.
From the mountains we had a very striking view of this white and brilliant aerial-field, which sent arms up the valleys, leaving islands and promontories in the same manner as the sea does in the Chonos archipelago and in Tierra del Fuego.
It is by no means an even opening in the rocks, but for several miles runs in and out in a series of zigzags, which are separated from each other by four vertical promontories of basaltic rock.
These promontories are hardly as wide as the fissure.
This is the last of the promontories before the rim of the Canyon turns sharply to the north.
These walls are cut and recessed into all kinds of shapes and forms, angles, promontories and recesses, which, especially in the early morning and late afternoon, cast shadows of inexpressible beauty.
Point Sublime is one of the most important promontories on the north rim.
Beyond Yaki Point, in the far-away east, two other great promontories arrest the attention.
Wherever one stands, at the eastern end of the Canyon, whether on the north or the south, on the promontories at the rim or on the plateaus beneath, it is the dominating and eye-compelling object.
Thucydides observes that in ancient times the Phenicians had occupied the promontories of Sicily and the small islands lying around Sicily, in order to carry on trade with the Sicels.
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