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Example sentences for "west extremity"

  • The above specimen was found at King George the Third's Sound near the south-west extremity of New Holland.

  • Near the North-West extremity of the Cape just at high-water mark, I noticed some pumice stones, small and not having the appearance of belonging to a recent eruption, which seems to agree with the opinion expressed by the Reverend W.

  • The North-West extremity of Reid's Rock might with propriety be described as a small islet, it being a dark mass some half a mile long, and rising 25 feet out of the water.

  • It is a bold projection in latitude 38 degrees 51 minutes, and appears to be the South-West extremity of a ridge of granite gradually rising from it in a North-East direction.

  • We rode across the island to the neck of land which joins the Rincon del Tor (the great peninsula at the south-west extremity) to the rest of the island.

  • One of my excursions took me towards the south-west extremity of the island.

  • We doubled the south-west extremity of Albemarle Island, and the next day were nearly becalmed between it and Narborough Island.

  • Although perpetually baffled by the ice, Hudson at last succeeded in reaching the north-west extremity of Spitzbergen, but finding his further progress arrested by an impenetrable barrier of fixed ice, he was forced to return.

  • Our expectation of finding the north-west extremity of the island disengaged from ice by the action of the currents was--at all events for this season--evidently doomed to disappointment.

  • It is quite possible, therefore, that the north-west extremity of Spitzbergen may be comparatively clear, while the whole of its southern coasts are enveloped in belts of ice of enormous extent.

  • It forms the mountain of the castle of San Antonio near the town of Cumana, the south-west extremity of the peninsula of Araya, the Cerro Meapire, south of Caraco and the vicinity of Porto Cabello.

  • I noticed on the north-west extremity of the basin of the West Indies that the secondary formations dip towards south-east; along the coast of Venezuela rocks of gneiss and primitive mica-slate dip to north-west.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain position; dual personality; home waters; make discoveries; might kill; noted above; small parties; sustain them; thought transference; wait upon; west angle; west coast; west course; west half; west longitude; west part; west quarter; west side; west wind; west winds; west wing; westerly direction; westerly wind; western frontier; western side; western yellow