... 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,... The Channel Islands - Page 27by David Thomas Ansted, Robert Gordon Latham - 1862 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...bays, where the water is seen boiling and foaming in the most extraordinary manner. From one headlnnd to another, round great hollow depressions, where...soft and decomposing, along parts of the cliff where widu cracks at the surface shew the possibility of the ground linking under his feet, the visitor may... | |
| David Thomas Ansted - Channel Islands - 1868 - 270 pages
...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...of the ground sinking under his feet, the visitor must pick his way, rewarded occasionally by bursts of unexpected grandeur and beauty. The cliffs are... | |
| Edward Spender - Channel Islands - 1870 - 196 pages
...vertical, either to the sea, or to the very small bays, where the water is seen boiling and foaming in the most extraordinary manner. From one headland...parts of the cliff where wide cracks at the surface shew the possibility of the ground sinking under his feet, the visitor may pick his way, rewarded occasionally... | |
| David Thomas Ansted - Channel Islands - 1879 - 260 pages
...cliffs thus formed. Many of them are quite vertical either to the sea or to very small bays, where the M water is seen foaming and boiling in the most extraordinary...show the possibility of the ground sinking under his feet/the visitor must pick his way, rewarded occasionally by bursts of unexpected grandeur and beauty.... | |
| David Thomas Ansted - Channel Islands - 1885 - 340 pages
...cliffs thus formed. Many of them are quite vertical either to the sea or to very small bays, where the N water is seen foaming and boiling in the most extraordinary...of the ground sinking under his feet, the visitor must pick his way, rewarded occasionally by bursts of unexpected grandeur and beauty. The cliffs are... | |
| Channel Islands - 1885 - 332 pages
...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...hollow depressions, where the granite is soft and decomposing—along parts of the cliff where wide cracks at the surface show the possibility of the... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1866 - 556 pages
...vertical, cither to the sea, or to the very small bays, where the water is seen boiling and foaming in the most extraordinary manner. From one headland...parts of the cliff where wide cracks at the surface shew the possibility of the ground sinking under his feet, the visitor may pick his way, rewarded occasionally... | |
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