The tourist's guide through the Isle of Wight. With its scenery illustr. in 20 engravings1846 |
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Abbey ancient Appuldurcombe Arreton Ashey bart beautiful Bembridge Blackgang Chine Bonchurch Boniface Brading Brixton Brook building built Calbourne called CARISBROOK CASTLE Catherine's Chale channel chapel Charles church cliffs coast commands cottage descend distance Earl East Cowes Elizabeth eminence entrance erected extensive feet Fernhill formed formerly Freshwater Gate GATCOMBE HOUSE Godshill ground Hampshire handsome harbour height Henry hill Hotel Hurst Castle ILLUSTRATION inhabitants island Isle of Wight king land lately lofty Lord Luccombe Luccombe Chine Lymington manor mansion mile nearly NEEDLE ROCKS neighbourhood Newport Newtown Niton Norris Castle Osborne House parish parliament passing pier Portsmouth present principal Queen reign residence Richard Worsley river Medina road Ryde scenery sea view seat seen SHALFLEET Shanklin shore side Sir Richard situation Southampton spot stands Steephill stone stream Street summit Swainston tide TOUR tourist tower town Undercliff Ventnor vessels village West Cowes winding Wootton Bridge Yarborough Yarmouth
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Page 81 - In the widely sweeping curve of a beautiful bay, there is a kind of chasm or opening in one of the lofty cliffs which bound it. This produces a very romantic and striking effect. The...
Page 45 - Needle rocks, rising out of the blue waters, continue the cliff in idea beyond its present boundary, and give an awful impression of the stormy ages which have gradually devoured its enormous mass.
Page 45 - These offer a series of points, of a sort of scolloped form, and which are often quite sharp and spiry. Deep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places, and not a vestige of vegetation appears in any part, — all is wild ruin. The tints of these cliffs are so bright, and so varied, that they have not the appearance of any thing natural.
Page 34 - The watch is still preserved in the family. It is of silver, large and clumsy in its form : the case is neatly ornamented with filigree, but the movements are of very ordinary workmanship, and wound up with catgut.
Page 45 - The scenery of this bay is, indeed, very superior in magnificence to that of any other part of the island. The chalk forms an unbroken face everywhere nearly perpendicular, and in some parts formidably projecting, and the tenderest stains of ochreous yellow and greenish moist vegetation vary without breaking its sublime uniformity. This vast wall extends...
Page 45 - ... the sun, which, from about noon till his setting, in summer illuminates them more and more, gives a brilliancy to some of these nearly as resplendent as the bright lights on real silk.
Page 45 - Deep purplish red, dusky blue, bright ochreous yellow, grey nearly approaching to white, and absolute black, succeed each other, as sharply defined as the stripes in silk...
Page 18 - On the eastern bank of the bay , are the elegant marine villa and decorated pleasure grounds of the late W. Chamberlayne, Esq., and Netley Abbey and Fort ; beyond, are the villas of Sir Arthur Paget and Sir Joseph Yorke ; then, Hamble church, and the mouth of Hamble river, and on the opposite side of the Hamble River, Hook House, the magnificent mansion of John Hornby, Esq. The various changes of situation, from the course of the vessel, part of the shore appearing more fully, while another part...
Page 81 - In the higher part of one of these declivities, two or three picturesque cottages are fixed, and seem half suspended in the air. From the upper extremity of this great fissure or opening in the cliff, a small stream of water enters by a cascade, flows through the bottom, winding in a varied course of about a quarter of a mile in length ; and then runs into the sea across a smooth expanse of firm hard sand, at the lower extremity of the chasm. At this point, THB YOUNG COTTAGER.
Page 31 - So solitary was his confinement during a great portion of his time, " that as he was standing one day near the gate of the castle, with Sir Philip "Warwick, he pointed to a decrepit old man, and said — ' That man is sent every morning to light my fire, and is the best companion I have had for many months.