Both Uses of
promontory
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- For three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language.†
Chpt 3-4
Definition:
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(promontory) a high point of land or rock that overlooks land at lower elevation -- often a rocky one that juts out into the sea