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... Variety of rocks in the islands . -Rapid disintegration of the rock . - Quality of the soil in the different islands . - The Quenvais in Jersey . - Incursions of the sea . Soil generally light . - Poisonous soil in Guernsey . - Soil of ...
... Variety of rocks in the islands . -Rapid disintegration of the rock . - Quality of the soil in the different islands . - The Quenvais in Jersey . - Incursions of the sea . Soil generally light . - Poisonous soil in Guernsey . - Soil of ...
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... variety as is the case with this archipelago ; and few groups of islands are so remarkable for their great political and historical interest , combined with singular natural beauty . Constructed for the most part of hard crystalline ...
... variety as is the case with this archipelago ; and few groups of islands are so remarkable for their great political and historical interest , combined with singular natural beauty . Constructed for the most part of hard crystalline ...
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... variety that cannot but please the most fastidious taste . The church is a worthy memorial of the family of Le Mesurier , long the hereditary governors of the island ; and was erected , with that intention , by the son of the last of ...
... variety that cannot but please the most fastidious taste . The church is a worthy memorial of the family of Le Mesurier , long the hereditary governors of the island ; and was erected , with that intention , by the son of the last of ...
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... variety of domestic architecture which still remains , and is characteristic of the island . There is , however , fronting the sea , although in a position too low to command attention or attract notice from a distance , a really ...
... variety of domestic architecture which still remains , and is characteristic of the island . There is , however , fronting the sea , although in a position too low to command attention or attract notice from a distance , a really ...
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... variety of rich - wooded and cultivated scenery , with picturesque houses and cottages . There are many other very pleasing , quiet , valley scenes , unconnected with the sea ; and besides them , are not a few where the distant expanse ...
... variety of rich - wooded and cultivated scenery , with picturesque houses and cottages . There are many other very pleasing , quiet , valley scenes , unconnected with the sea ; and besides them , are not a few where the distant expanse ...
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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...