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<div class="chaptext" id="l26"><SPAN name="less26"></SPAN> <div class="lesson">LESSON XXVI.</div> <div class="chaphead">MORE ABOUT FORMS OF LAND AND WATER.</div> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/044_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill44"><ANTIMG src= "images/044.jpg" border="0" alt="PICTURE OF A PENINSULA." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">PICTURE OF A PENINSULA.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/045_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill45"><ANTIMG src= "images/045.jpg" border="0" alt="MAP OF A PENINSULA." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">MAP OF A PENINSULA.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <p>In the picture we see a narrow strip of land which extends far out into the water. You will notice that the land has water all round; except at one place.</p> <p>What is the name for land that has water on all sides but one? What is a peninsula? An island, as we have learned, is a piece of land with water all round it. Now, sometimes we see a piece of land that has water <i>nearly</i> all round it. This form of land is called a <i>peninsula</i>. The word peninsula means <i>almost an island</i>.</p> <p><br/> How would you change this peninsula to an island? What is the difference between a peninsula and an island?</p> <p>The narrow neck which joins the peninsula to other land--just as the neck joins the head to the body-is called an <i>isthmus</i>, which means <i>neck</i>.</p> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/046_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill46"><ANTIMG src= "images/046.jpg" border="0" alt="PICTURE OF A BAY." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">PICTURE OF A BAY.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/047_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill47"><ANTIMG src= "images/047.jpg" border="0" alt="MAP OF A BAY." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">MAP OF A BAY.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <p>Here is another picture which I wish you to look at. You see where the shore bends like a bow; and the water runs a little way into the land.</p> <p>Can you think of anything else that is bent like this? Yes-a bay-window.</p> <p>Now, when I tell yon that bay means the same as bow, you can almost guess the name for this bend in the land. It is called a bay. You will easily remember that little word.</p> <p>A wide opening or bend in the land, into which the water flows, is usually called a bay.</p> <p>Sometimes, when the opening in the bend is long and narrow, it is called a <i>gulf</i>.</p> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/048_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill48"><ANTIMG src= "images/048.jpg" border="0" alt="PICTURE OF A STRAIT." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">PICTURE OF A STRAIT.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <table summary="illustration" width="100" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><SPAN href="images/049_l.gif" target="_blank" id="ill49"><ANTIMG src= "images/049.jpg" border="0" alt="MAP OF A STRAIT." /></SPAN></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="caption">MAP OF A STRAIT.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <p>On the next page is shown a narrow strip of water joining two larger bodies of water. The name given to this narrow passage is strait, a word meaning narrow.</p> <p>As an isthmus connects two bodies of land, so a strait connects two bodies of water.</p> <p>After a rain make little lakes, rivers, bays, etc. Perhaps you may find some already made.</p> <p>See whether you can find in the magazines and books at home pictures of gulfs, bays, peninsulas, etc.</p> <p><i>Write the following:</i> A peninsula is land almost surrounded by water.</p> <p>An isthmus is a neck of land joining two larger bodies of land.</p> <p>A gulf or bay is a portion of some large body of water extending into the land.</p> <p>A strait is a narrow passage of water that joins two larger bodies of water.</p> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />