Headland

(hed'land.) [Head and land.] (Geog.) A promontory or point which projects out to sea a considerable distance beyond the rest.-(Agric.) A strip, ridge, or border of land, usually left intact at each end ofa field, for the turning of the plough. Headley, JOEL TYLER, an American author, B. in Delaware co., N. Y., 1814, of which State he became secretary in 1855. His works comprise biographies of Napoleon and his Marshals, and of Cromwell; together with a History of the Second War between England and the U. States (1853). [s. 444]