promontory

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• Below the promontory was a level area, perfect for a trading settlement. Champlain's Dream
• The Kirsehir-Nigde massif formed a promontory of this continental margin.
• The Shark Observatory at Ras Mohammed is a viewpoint on a high promontory from where, years ago, visitors could view large shoals of milkfish with their dorsal fins breaking the surface.
• The eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there rose from the dell with massive or spiry fronts, or it might dwell on the noble, though ruined tower, which was here beheld in all its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. Waverley
• It seemed that the Indians from San Salvador who were on board the Pinta had told him that beyond the promontory, named by Columbus the Cape of Palms, there was a river, four days 'journey upon which would bring one to the city of Cuba, which was very rich and large and abounded with gold; and that the king of that country was at war with a monarch whom they called Cami, and whom Pinzon identified with the Great Khan. Christopher Columbus
• It was hard to tell which eagle-eyed member of the crew spotted the stranded paddler waving at us from a rocky promontory.
• The next morning, he descried a promontory which he called cape Cod, and, holding his course along the coast as it stretched to the south-west, touched at two islands, the first of which he named Martha's Vineyard, and the second, Elizabeth's Island. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
• The star-shaped fortress is situated on an important promontory in the harbour.
• To the east lies the wild promontory of Portofino, whose southern coast is accessible only on foot or by sea.
• The house sits on a rocky promontory at the southern tip of Kata beach, one of the best on the island.