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... covering the cliffs as far as the cliffs can be seen . Many inlets occur , and each of them presents peculiar and ... covered with black sand , mixed up with numerous large rounded blocks of granite . Here the rocks descend at once ...
... covering the cliffs as far as the cliffs can be seen . Many inlets occur , and each of them presents peculiar and ... covered with black sand , mixed up with numerous large rounded blocks of granite . Here the rocks descend at once ...
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... covered with only three or four fathoms water . There are two landing - places for boats on the Casquets ; but there is rarely a possibility of using them , owing to the inces- D sant swell and frequent breaking of large waves . The.
... covered with only three or four fathoms water . There are two landing - places for boats on the Casquets ; but there is rarely a possibility of using them , owing to the inces- D sant swell and frequent breaking of large waves . The.
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... covered by only ten feet water at the lowest tides . It lies in a direct line between the Race of Alderney , and the en- trance to the great Russel . This is the Banc du Schôle . It is shifting and very dangerous , as the sea breaks on ...
... covered by only ten feet water at the lowest tides . It lies in a direct line between the Race of Alderney , and the en- trance to the great Russel . This is the Banc du Schôle . It is shifting and very dangerous , as the sea breaks on ...
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... covering and sheltering , by its position , several smaller islands . It is admirably adapted , in time of peace , to build ships and hold communication with the world ; and it has been found equally well adapted , in time of war , to ...
... covering and sheltering , by its position , several smaller islands . It is admirably adapted , in time of peace , to build ships and hold communication with the world ; and it has been found equally well adapted , in time of war , to ...
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... covered with farms . By far the finest coast scenery of the island , is that produced where this plateau terminates abruptly towards the sea . Whe- ther on the plateau itself , looking down the valleys which con- duct to the various ...
... covered with farms . By far the finest coast scenery of the island , is that produced where this plateau terminates abruptly towards the sea . Whe- ther on the plateau itself , looking down the valleys which con- duct to the various ...
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a-half Alderney Aubin's beach beautiful Bouley Bay BRAYE HARBOUR breakwater Brechou Britany broken Burhou called Casquets Castle Cornet caverns Channel Islands chapter church cliffs climate Clonque common connected covered Creux crustaceans cultivated deep detached rocks distance east Elizabeth Castle England English extending extremity fathoms favourable feet fish France Gouliot granite Grosnez ground Hanois rocks harbour headland Helier's Herm high water houses important interesting islets Jersey Jersey and Guernsey Jethou jurats kind Lihou Little Sark low water mass means miles Minquiers narrow natural nearly Normandy north-east northern obtained peculiar Peter's Port picturesque plants porphyry present rare remarkable rising road rocky sand sand-stone Sark scenery sea-weed seen shore side singular species stone syenite table land temperature tide town trees Vale Castle valley variety vegetation veins visited vraic vulgaris walls weather whole wind yards
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Page 425 - Serk, that doth attend Her pleasure every hour ; as Jethow, them at need, With pheasants, fallow deer, and conies that dost feed : Ye seven small sister isles, and Sorlings, which to see The half-sunk seaman joys ; or whatsoe'er you be, From fruitful Aurney, near the ancient Celtic shore, To Ushant and the Seams, whereas those nuns of yore Gave answers from their caves, and took what shapes they please : Ye happy islands set within the British seas, With shrill and jocund shouts, th...
Page 107 - The great peculiarity of the bay is the succession of noble and picturesque caverns, and deep narrow fiords alternating with rocky reefs projecting for some distance into the sea. These are continued far beyond the lowest tide, extending, indeed, to the extremity of Cape Grosnez, under which is the last cavern. It is difficult to state the number of caverns in the bay with precision. Six may be visited in succession at all times except near highwater, and all are strikingly picturesque.
Page 27 - ... second small patch, quarried near the top of the cliff, and seen reaching the sea. Afterwards there is nothing but naked and rough granite and porphyry. Wonderfully broken and precipitous are the cliffs thus formed. Many of them are quite vertical, either to the sea or to very small bays, where the water is seen foaming and boiling in the most extraordinary manner. From one headland to another — round great hollow depressions, where the granite is soft and decomposing — along parts of the...
Page 389 - Castle, for beds, candles, fire for the soldiers, and divers other disbursements, amounting to above thirty thousand pounds. But what grieved the island most, being an evil undeserved, was the filling it with soldiers, though for seven years before, by the mercy of God, and the faithful endeavours of some active inhabitants, they had preserved themselves and the island in obedience to Parliament ; and when the king was put to death, and his party and interests were brought low in England, there was...