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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.

When the general name precedes the specific in ordinary book- work, as in county of Westchester,