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... masses of similar rock . Banks of sand , some of them extremely steep , would occupy intervals between the groups of pinnacles and the more important hummocks of hard , naked rock . A few comparatively deep val- leys would mark the ...
... masses of similar rock . Banks of sand , some of them extremely steep , would occupy intervals between the groups of pinnacles and the more important hummocks of hard , naked rock . A few comparatively deep val- leys would mark the ...
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... every direction by veins and crevices , some of the veins being filled with rock yet tougher than the granite of the mass , and some with soft minerals and clay , the result has been the production of the islands and rocks as we.
... every direction by veins and crevices , some of the veins being filled with rock yet tougher than the granite of the mass , and some with soft minerals and clay , the result has been the production of the islands and rocks as we.
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... mass of the toughest syenite , with a coast affording the grandest and boldest scenery ; while Jersey , although a much larger tract of land , more within the gulf , is softer and rounder , with larger and tamer bays , and a less severe ...
... mass of the toughest syenite , with a coast affording the grandest and boldest scenery ; while Jersey , although a much larger tract of land , more within the gulf , is softer and rounder , with larger and tamer bays , and a less severe ...
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... mass of the population in some of the islands had undergone marvellously little change . But the time of change has come . Roads , steam - boats , and public works , have already so far altered the peculiar features of the larger ...
... mass of the population in some of the islands had undergone marvellously little change . But the time of change has come . Roads , steam - boats , and public works , have already so far altered the peculiar features of the larger ...
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... mass of hard rock , forming the north - western 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 ...
... mass of hard rock , forming the north - western 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 ...
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a-half Alderney Aubin's beach beauty Bouley Bay BRAYE HARBOUR breakwater Brechou Britany broken Burhou called Casquets Castle Cornet caverns Channel Islands chapter church cliffs climate 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 islands and rocks islets Jerbourg Jersey Jersey and Guernsey Jethou kind Lihou Little Sark low water mass miles Minquiers narrow natural nearly Normandy north-east northern obtained pebbles peculiar Peter's Port picturesque plants porphyry present rare remarkable rising road rocky sand sand-stone 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 122 - the horizon. The whole group of rocks and islands occupy an irregular area, measuring six and a-half miles from east to west, and five miles from north to south. The largest island, called La Grande He, is the furthest to the south, and is the only one of any importance.
Page 55 - not unpicturesque at a distance, although almost all have lost the stone tracery of the windows, and have been greatly neglected. Most of them have low spires; but St. Saviour's and St. Peter's-in-the-wood have towers. There are some interesting morsels of Norman work in some of the doorways, especially the Vale * and St. Martin's.
Page 125 - Blocks of every variety of form and size are grouped together in a thousand different ways, some rising into pyramids, others graduated and cut into irregular tiers of steps, others again heaped into confused masses, like the ruins of some giant structure; at one place, appearing like colossal Druidical stones; at another, entangled together like the rude materials of some
Page 395 - which warning we order to be published in all parts of our kingdom of England, and throughout our realms and dominions under our obedience, wheresoever they lie or are situated : that if any of our said officers or subjects shall be so rash as to presume to transgress these, our strict orders and commands, wo
Page 196 - 64 690 41 95 35 135 257 70 222 253 1862 equals, or even exceeds that island in the number of species. Thus, of twenty-five known species of ferns found in the islands, twenty-one occur in Guernsey and only twenty in Jersey. Five species are found in Guernsey only, and two in Jersey