On the contrary, their coasts, angular, jagged, and deeply indented, abound in bays and peninsulas.

They remind you of the coast of Norway, or of the islands in the Sound, where the land seems to be cut up into endless divisions.

If navigation ever existed on the Moon's surface, it must have been of a singularly difficult and dangerous nature, and we can scarcely say which of the two should be more pitied--the sailors who had to steer through these dangerous and complicated passes, or the map-makers who had to designate them on their charts.
You will also remark that the southern pole of the Moon is much more _continental_ than the northern.

Around the latter, there exists only a slight fringe of lands separated from the other continents by vast "seas." This word "seas"-- a term employed by the first lunar map constructors--is still retained to designate those vast depressions on the Moon's surface, once perhaps covered with water, though they are now only enormous plains.

In the south, the continents cover nearly the whole hemisphere.