CAPE

(Lat. caput, a head.) In Geography, is the term used to indicate the extreme point of a promontory, or of that portion of land which juts out into the sea beyond the general line of the coast; as Cape Taenarus or Matapan, the most southern part of Europe; the Cape of Good Hope, the most southern part of Africa; Cape Horn, the southern extremity of America, . On rocky and much indented coasts capes generally terminate in acute angles, whence they are sometimes denominated «oe»ltey and if the portion of the land which projects is small or not high, the appellation ne in England, and in Scotland that of mull, is a igned to it, as Sheerne , the Mull of Galloway. C [s. 205]