Those invaders known to us as the Jutes took possession of Vectisthe Isle of Wightand of the coast of the adjacent mainland.

" She walked across the beach to a smooth slab of rock and seated herself sullenly, with her eyes on the distant mainland.

England had fortified herself in Cefalonia and Zante, France in Corfù, and interest centred on the opposite mainland, where Ali Pasha of Yannina maintained a formidable neutrality towards either power.

ARGYLL (74), a large county in the W. of Scotland, consisting of deeply indented mainland and islands, and abounding in mountains, moorlands, and lochs, with scenery often picturesque as well as wild and savage.

Then I can determine how far it is to the nearest mainland, or to a larger island.

England, wishing to have a share in this world of wonders, sent a Venetian mariner, John Cabot; and he and his son sailed along our northern mainland in English ships.