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... yards of cliff ; and the naturalist may wander for days over a space of a few square miles , without half exhausting its treasures . That the Channel Islands are not known to the public gene- rally cannot be said . But the knowledge ...
... yards of cliff ; and the naturalist may wander for days over a space of a few square miles , without half exhausting its treasures . That the Channel Islands are not known to the public gene- rally cannot be said . But the knowledge ...
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... yards in area , for every square mile of dangerous surrounding sea ; but , estimating the dimen- sions by the extent of dangerous water , a very fair idea will be formed of the relative importance of each group in navigation . It would ...
... yards in area , for every square mile of dangerous surrounding sea ; but , estimating the dimen- sions by the extent of dangerous water , a very fair idea will be formed of the relative importance of each group in navigation . It would ...
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... yards to the east from Cape Grosnez ; and another , north - west from Roselle Point , running out 400 yards . These would have enclosed the natural bay . To enlarge this design ( which was originally either too much or too little ) , it ...
... yards to the east from Cape Grosnez ; and another , north - west from Roselle Point , running out 400 yards . These would have enclosed the natural bay . To enlarge this design ( which was originally either too much or too little ) , it ...
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... yards to 1 inch . References . A A ' La Touraille ' Fort . B. Grosnez Fort . C. a - b . Chateau l'Etoc ' Fort . Sectional view across the Breakwater . NB . The figures are soundings in fathoms . The fine dotted line represents low ...
... yards to 1 inch . References . A A ' La Touraille ' Fort . B. Grosnez Fort . C. a - b . Chateau l'Etoc ' Fort . Sectional view across the Breakwater . NB . The figures are soundings in fathoms . The fine dotted line represents low ...
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... yards exhibits something worth pausing to admire , will occupy a good deal of time . A considerable drawback exists , owing to the great difficulty , often amounting to impossibility , of getting down safely to the water's edge , and ...
... yards exhibits something worth pausing to admire , will occupy a good deal of time . A considerable drawback exists , owing to the great difficulty , often amounting to impossibility , of getting down safely to the water's edge , and ...
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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...