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A New Key to Unlock Every Kingdom, State, and Province in the Known World
A New Key to Unlock Every Kingdom State and Province in the Known World Author:A. G. Hamilton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: land, or Denmark, in Europe, all the principal peninsulas of both continents extend towards the South. South America, California, Florida, Sweden, and Norway,... more » (which formed the ancient Scandinavia,) Spain, Italy, Turkey, Africa, Arabia, Hindoostan, Farther India, Corea, and Kamschatka, are all examples of this fact. Both continents terminate in bold and lofty pro- montaries, at Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, on the South. The direction of the two continents is entirely different. The Eastern Continent extends principally from East to West; the Western from North to South. The greatest length of the Eastern Continent in a stright line is about 9,000 miles, from the Cape of Good Hope to the north-eastern part of Siberia. The greatest length of the Western Continent is about 7,000 miles, from Behring's Straits to the mouth of the river La Plata. DIVISIONS OF OCEANS AND CONTINENTS. When a part of the ocean is almost surrounded by land, it is called a sea. A salt lake is also called a sea, as the Caspian Sea, and Sea of Aral in Asia. The narrow passage of water into a sea, or between two portions of land, is called a strait. A wider passage is called a channel. A sound is a channel or strait which may be sounded, or the depth of which may be measured with a line. A part of the ocean running up into the land, with a broad opening, is called a gulf or bay. A harbour is a small bay where ships may anchor. A road is a part of the sea near a coast, where ships may ride or lie at anchor. That part of the land which lies next to the sea is called a shore or coast. A point of land on the coast projecting into the sea is called a cape. A high cape is also called a promontory. A portion of laud which runs out into the sea, joined to the continen...« less