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... tidal wave . - The islands rich in natural history and scenery . - Interest attaching to them . - Time when they should be visited . - Importance as military stations . - Ab- sence of Celtic element . - Approaching change . - Names and ...
... tidal wave . - The islands rich in natural history and scenery . - Interest attaching to them . - Time when they should be visited . - Importance as military stations . - Ab- sence of Celtic element . - Approaching change . - Names and ...
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... tide . - Abundance of Zostera marina . - Multitude of rocks . - Fishing . - Stone cutting . -Barilla making . - Population of the islands . - M . de Quatre- fages . - Light - house . - Modern fortifications CHAPTER VII . - 122 CLIMATE ...
... tide . - Abundance of Zostera marina . - Multitude of rocks . - Fishing . - Stone cutting . -Barilla making . - Population of the islands . - M . de Quatre- fages . - Light - house . - Modern fortifications CHAPTER VII . - 122 CLIMATE ...
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... tidal wave through the waters that sur- round the Channel Islands , may be thus stated . The great wave coming in from the Atlantic , advances from the south - west , and is turned to the east . A part of it passes on to the north ...
... tidal wave through the waters that sur- round the Channel Islands , may be thus stated . The great wave coming in from the Atlantic , advances from the south - west , and is turned to the east . A part of it passes on to the north ...
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... tide wave in the open channels , till the wave has been flowing three hours , and that when it has turned it continues in that direction not only till the flood has turned , but till the retiring wave has receded half its course . In ...
... tide wave in the open channels , till the wave has been flowing three hours , and that when it has turned it continues in that direction not only till the flood has turned , but till the retiring wave has receded half its course . In ...
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... tidal wave . Hence , the navi- gation is exceedingly difficult and dangerous in foggy weather , ships being some- times drifted for miles out of their course . SCENERY . 11 Placed close to Normandy , with whose 10 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS .
... tidal wave . Hence , the navi- gation is exceedingly difficult and dangerous in foggy weather , ships being some- times drifted for miles out of their course . SCENERY . 11 Placed close to Normandy , with whose 10 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS .
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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...