The boat sailed around the promontory.

So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend their prey,

There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.

Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.