Capitals for geographical names
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- The West is an empire, poor as compared with the East, but rich in promise of greatness.
- A representative of the South.
- I am going west.
- The house was fifty feet east from the river, and extended twelve feet due north of the building-line.
- The compass indicated south-southwest.
When a geographical or a personal name is used to qualify another descriptive word, like street, avenue, river, road, lake, island, valley, etc., the capi- tal should be put at the beginning of each word, as :
- Bay of Fundy
- Chenango County
- Erie Canal
- Governor's Island
- Hudson River Railroad
- Lafayette Place
- Long Island
- Long Island Sound
- Shenandoah Valley
- Strait of Dover
When place, street, county, river, island, road, etc., are used in a generalized way, and not for specific identification, they do not take capitals ; but when one place is clearly intended and is usually so un- derstood, although the full name of that place is not given, the capital should be used.
- I purpose making a trip to-morrow on the Sound steamer for Fall River.
- The man was sent to the Island.
When the general name precedes the specific in ordinary book- work, as in county of Westchester,
