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... extremity of the Cotentin and terminated by Cape la Hague , serves as a buttress protecting that part of Normandy which ranges northwards from Mont St. Michel . This headland is separated by a narrow channel of no great depth from the ...
... extremity of the Cotentin and terminated by Cape la Hague , serves as a buttress protecting that part of Normandy which ranges northwards from Mont St. Michel . This headland is separated by a narrow channel of no great depth from the ...
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... extremity of the land . A still nearer approach separates them , and shows some- thing of their magnitude and importance . This coast terminates at a small battery or rock fortress , standing out about a furlong from the land , with ...
... extremity of the land . A still nearer approach separates them , and shows some- thing of their magnitude and importance . This coast terminates at a small battery or rock fortress , standing out about a furlong from the land , with ...
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... extremity , and about a mile of the side facing south- east . The rest of the south - eastern side and the southern ex- tremity , are naturally defended , and may safely be left to take care of themselves . The form of Alderney has been ...
... extremity , and about a mile of the side facing south- east . The rest of the south - eastern side and the southern ex- tremity , are naturally defended , and may safely be left to take care of themselves . The form of Alderney has been ...
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... extremity of this headland , on which is a strong fort , the long arm of the western pier or breakwater takes its origin . The distance of this point from the opposite land of the bay , is about 1,200 yards , this being therefore the ...
... extremity of this headland , on which is a strong fort , the long arm of the western pier or breakwater takes its origin . The distance of this point from the opposite land of the bay , is about 1,200 yards , this being therefore the ...
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... extremity of the island . In a military sense , this extremity is the weakest point of the island . The coast is low , and though certainly very rocky , and with a con- * It is a fact of some interest , that many old buildings in ...
... extremity of the island . In a military sense , this extremity is the weakest point of the island . The coast is low , and though certainly very rocky , and with a con- * It is a fact of some interest , that many old buildings in ...
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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...