Black's Guide to the Channel IslandsDavid Thomas Ansted |
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Aberfeldy accommodation Alderney Aubin's beautiful boat Bonne Nuit Bouley Bay breakwater Brelade's building called Carriages Casquets Castle Cornet caverns Channel Islands chapel Church Clanque cliff coast of Guernsey Coffee-Room comfort Corbières cove Creux Crevichon cromlech curious Distance from Harbour Distance from St east EDINBURGH Elizabeth Castle English extremity Families feet First-class fish Fort Regent French GLASGOW Gorey Gouliot grand granite Grève de Lecq Grosnez ground Grouville Grouville Church Guernsey pound headland Helier's Herm Hotel houses Icart interesting interior Jerbourg Jersey Jethou L'Ancresse L'Etac Lançon land Lihou Loch London Manor-house Martin's miles Minquiers Mont Orgeuil Moulin Huet narrow nearly Noirmont northern Oban Ouen's parish Peter Port picturesque Pleinmont Proprietor quarries Railway reached road rocky Royal Rozel Sampson's sands Sark scenery seen Serk shore side Steamers stone Street Table d'Hôte Taymouth Castle tide Tourists tower town valley Vazon walk
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Page 1 - Lochinver and Stornoway ; affording Tourists an opportunity of Visiting the Magnificent Scenery of Glencoe, the Coolin Hills, Loch Coruisk, Loch Maree, and the famed islands of Staffa and lona. *»* These vessels afford in their passage a view of the beautiful...
Page 1 - GLASGOW AND THE HIGHLANDS. (Royal Route via Crinan and Caledonian Canals.") THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS— IONA, CHEVALIER...
Page 33 - KEYLESS HALF-CHRONOMETERS, COMPENSATED FOR VARIATIONS OF TEMPERATURE, Adjusted in Positions, Winding and Setting Hands without a Key, for Gentlemen, in Gold, 30 to 40 Guineas ; ditto in Silver, 16 to 25 Guineas.
Page 35 - Prepared and sold in boxes, Is, IJd., and Tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6il., and 10s. 6d. each, by THOMAS KEATING, Chemist. &c, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all Druggists and Patent Medicine Vendors in the world. NB— To prevent spurious imitations, please to observe that the words,
Page 27 - Situation, Comfort, or Accommodation, combined with moderate charges, this elegant Hotel, built expressly for Summer Visitors, cannot be surpassed, while it commands an extensive view of the beautiful Bay of Oban and other romantic scenery in the neighbourhood. The Hotel is situated on an elevated plateau near the Steamboat Wharf, to which a new and convenient approach has been lately added.
Page 24 - THE above first-class Hotel is beautifully situated at the foot of the "Queen of Scottish Lakes," and at an easy distance from the Railway Station.
Page 45 - NOVELS. cols., sewed, price 6d. 14. The Fortunes of Nigel. 15. Peveril of the Peak. 16. Quentin Durward. 17. St. Ronan's Well. 18. Redgauntlet. 19. The Betrothed, and the Highland Widow.
Page 22 - Kingdom, for which their establishment has been so long famed, and for which they were awarded a FIRSTCLASS PRIZE MEDAL in the Great International Exhibition of 1862.
Page 20 - The Gate of the Wye," and for the beauty and variety of the scenery on its banks, there is no river in England at all comparable with it ; nor do we believe (notwithstanding the superiority of some of them in point of size) that there is a single river on the Continent of Europe that can boast such scenes of grandeur, gracefulness, and pastoral beauty. Its romantic beauties, whether where it glides majestically along the rich plains of Herefordshire — through orchards, meadows...