The promontory on which the fortifications had stood was annihilated, and the waters of the bay swept over its foundations.
A reference to the second map will show this as a promontory lying to the north-west of the island-continent which embraced the Cape of Good Hope and parts of western Africa.
Thence they spread into Atlantis proper, chiefly across the middle of the continent, gradually however tending northwards towards the stretch of coast facing the promontory of Greenland.
Harried on their southern borders and driven further north by the Tlavatli warriors, they began to overflow to the neighbouring land to the east, and to the still nearer promontory of Greenland.
This is a glorious place, a rocky promontory washed by the sea on both sides, crowned by Cardinal Beaton's castle, and backed by a perfect crowd of ecclesiastical ruins.
Mentone consisted then only of the old town on a promontory above the sea, ending in a little island-tower, and clambering up the sides of the hill to the castle and cemetery.
He dreamt that he stood on the little promontory in the Villa Reale, and that he saw two corpses bobbing up and down a short distance off.
The ruin becomes a rock, and the rock a ruin; on the high promontory the blossom breathes fragrance, below lies the sea with open jaws; over Scylla gleam beautiful houses and streets amidst the lair of frightful rocks.
Before we had yet doubled the promontory of Posilippo, the crater of Vesuvius threw up its glowing child, the sun, slowly into the sky, and sea and earth blazed.
Albano looked over toward the flame, flickering high in the starry heaven, and, like a god, having the great thunder beneath it, and he saw how the night had made the promontory of Misenum loom up like a cloud beside the volcano.
Write it, and call him "The Man-mountain, or real and undoubted Promontory of Noses.
On the other hand, Lone Mountain, a dreary promontory giving upon the Golden Gate and its striking sunsets, had little to soften its weird suggestiveness.
He descended by a cave situated on the side of the promontory of Taenarus, and arrived in the Stygian realm.
Your corps will be on the river, ready to run to and debark on the nearest eligible land below the promontory first brought to view passing down the river.
The day following this night of torture the Indians and their mangled captives reached the promontory of Ticonderoga, along the base of which flowed the limpid waters, the outlet of Lake George.
The rocky promontory at the foot of which the town is built is covered with the finest arbor vitae forest probably in existence.
A promontory in Geat-land, near which Ohthere's sons made plundering raids.
A promontory in Geat-land, under which took place Beowulf's last encounter.
He had even attempted a moonlight climb up the sloping face of a high promontory with Stickeen as his companion, but was unable to get to the top, owing to the smoothness of the granite rock.
My favorite perch was on the summit of a sugar-loaf rock which formed the point of a promontory jutting into the bay directly in front of my glacier, and distant from its face less than a quarter of a mile.
High above, on the flat promontory between the two rivers, is the city of tents and wooden huts, the great trees in their fresh faint green towering above the low roofs.
With that I started off to gain the top of the promontory in order to watch the chase.
Directly before him lay the Promontory of Evolo, with its old olive trees.
First he took a side circuit through the crooked little streets, and then hurried off toward the Promontory of Evolo.
The way is very short along the shore, under the Promontory of Evolo.
It is formed by this Cape to the north, and by a promontory to the south, which I named Point Pringle, after my good friend Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society.
Cape Prince of Wales is a rocky, precipitous promontory about 2000 ft.
From a distance the promontory presents almost the appearance of an island, as it is joined to the low land by a landspit hidden in winter by stranded ice.
Captain Healey of the Thetis had resolved to land us on Cape Prince of Wales, but when, towards evening, that promontorywas sighted, my heart sank at the now familiar sight of ice packed heavily around the coast.
When they came round the promontory they saw Mrs. Biggleswade waving frantically towards the station, and half-way to it two little figures running.
Punta Marroqui, on the straits, is the southernmost promontoryof the European mainland.
The ancient district consisted of the peninsula at its southeast extremity, between the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Tarentum, ending in the lapygian promontory (Lat.
Here the mountains end in a great promontory which plunges precipitately into the Mediterranean between the Spanish province of Figueras and the rich garden-spot of Roussillon, in France.
To it must be added the small mound or promontory found further south on the east bank of the arroyo.
This far-famed rock rises on the top of a bold promontory of granite, jutting far out into the sea, split into the wildest forms, and towering precipitously to a height of a hundred feet.
The ruins on the summit of the promontory only consist of a few straggling walls, loosely piled up, rather than built, with dark-coloured stone.
The south side of this promontory needed but little watching, for no man could find a way down crags which imminently threatened to topple over into the sea.
Others were engaged in storing powder in the magazine on the western promontory which was built close under the custom-house, and communicated with it.
The men at once began throwing up a camp on the promontory to the west of the harbor, outside the town, and close to the building custom-house.
The camp was on ground sloping away to the harbor, and, like the town, below the top ridge of the promontory which rose some fifty feet above it.
Well, yes, we shall make that promontory on the next tack, and then we can lie to.
She could see the ruddy-gray side of the fortress hill Palamede which stood up five hundred feet above Nauplia, but the town itself lay out of view behind a darkpromontory which ran rockily out.
By the time they were close in to the promontory behind which they had left the Capsina, the stain of smoke had rolled away eastward, and now hung over the Troad.
The day before they had run before a strong south wind, hoping to clear the promontory before night and get through the dangerous straits to the north of it by daylight.
Once in the bay, the face of the squall reached them not so violently, for they were under shelter of the promontory close to which they had passed; but the Capsina ran on some half-mile before putting about.
To the south the island lay green and gray and fringed with white, and, to the north, promontory after promontory, each grayer and bluer than the last, melted into the bay of Gythium.
It is a picturesque little village, and derives its name from a bold and remarkable promontory which springs directly from the plain and under whose shadow the village stands.
This promontory always attracts the attention of tourists, and is therefore worthy of special mention.
It was the promontoryof Fairhead, on the coast of Antrim, and no spectacle could be grander.
Giant's Causeway, or rather at the promontory of Fairhead, where a pair of eagles wheeled above our heads, and darted off as if to hide themselves in a blaze of sky made by the setting sun.
The last I saw was on the wing, off the promontory of Fairhead, county of Antrim.
Then he crossed over to Arabia, and it is said that in the narrow part of Ethiopia towards Arabia, on the promontory of Dire, there was a pillar giving an account of his crossing.
Scylax of Caryanda names the coast of the Black Sea, from the Chalybians to Armene, westward of the promontory of Syrias, Assyria.
A promontory running into the sea to the north of Sinope is called Syrias.
