ENGLAND HAS ONLY ONE CAPE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 11

ENGLAND HAS ONLY ONE CAPE

How many “capes” are there on the coast of England? The answer is “One.” Some years ago, on a solitary tramp along the south-west corner of Cornwall, I reached Land’s End. Sitting on the green turf, and looking out seaward, I got into conversation with one of the natives. Presently, pointing his finger across the blue waters to a big rocky, and distant headland, he said, “That’s the only cape in England.” Not unnaturally I suspected some little jest at my expense, and I suppose I looked my suspicions. “That’s right, sir”; he went on: “That's Cape Cornwall, and if you get a map and look round the coast of England, you won’t find another ‘cape’ besides that.” The man was right; there is Cape Wrath at 'the north-west corner of Scotland, and there is Cape Clear in the south-west of Ireland, but Cape Cornwall is the only “cape” on the coast of England. We have Flamborough Head and Spurn Point, the North and South Forelands, Portland Bill, and the rest, but not another “cape.” How easy it is to go to school and learn geography, and yet to go on scanning maps all our days, and yet to miss the simplest things.— “Methodist Recorder.”