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Rock of Gibraltar, to ancients
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calpe
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Calpe \Calpe\ n. the Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; associated with Britain. Syn: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar.
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Calpe is the Spanish name for Calp, a coastal town in Valencia, Spain. It may also refer to: Calpe (monolith) , also known as the Rock of Gibraltar or Mons Calpe, a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar. It was one of the Pillars of Hercules. ...
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Some time later he came back to the shattered rail, and staring out at the little fleet of boats that were pulling with all their might from Gibraltar and from the sloop Calpe towards the Hannibal, he said to Jack, 'You do not suppose they mean to retake the ship, do you?
In the Royal Navy the reversed ensign was an emphatic signal of distress: the Calpe and the people in Gibraltar, seeing it, had supposed the Hannibal meant she was afloat again and was begging to be towed off.
Heneage Dundas of the fast-sailing sloop Calpe was an amiable young man, much caressed by those who knew him for his shining parts and particularly for his skill in the mathematics.
He went on to congratulate me on my wisdom, extolled the advantages of Calpe as a home port, and , forecast a good profit for all concerned.
And quickly they sighted and sailed past his shrine and the broad banks of the river and the plain, and deep-flowing Calpe, and all the windless night and the day they bent to their tireless oars.
After traversing various countries, Hercules reached at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, as monuments of his progress, or according to another account rent one mountain into two and left half on each side, forming the Straits of Gibraltar, the two mountains being called the Pillars of Hercules.