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... porphyry . Wonderfully broken and preci- pitous are the cliffs thus formed . Many of them are quite ver- tical , either to the sea or to very small bays , where the water is seen foaming and boiling in the most extraordinary manner ...
... porphyry . Wonderfully broken and preci- pitous are the cliffs thus formed . Many of them are quite ver- tical , either to the sea or to very small bays , where the water is seen foaming and boiling in the most extraordinary manner ...
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... porphyries , and other hypogene rocks . We learn the history of the stratified form of these rocks ; the nature , extent , and cause of the various syste- matic clefts or fissures by which they are very generally inter- sected ; the ...
... porphyries , and other hypogene rocks . We learn the history of the stratified form of these rocks ; the nature , extent , and cause of the various syste- matic clefts or fissures by which they are very generally inter- sected ; the ...
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... porphyries , together with shales , schists , slates , sand - stones , and conglomerates , of whatever date . Metamorphic Geology of the Channel Islands . It may be well to state , that by the term metamorphic , is here meant not that ...
... porphyries , together with shales , schists , slates , sand - stones , and conglomerates , of whatever date . Metamorphic Geology of the Channel Islands . It may be well to state , that by the term metamorphic , is here meant not that ...
Page 251
... porphyries ; besides argillaceous and chloritic schists , and many others . All these occur here , much as they ... porphyry is obtained ; in other words , a number of crystals are seen embedded in a crystalline mass . Such rocks ...
... porphyries ; besides argillaceous and chloritic schists , and many others . All these occur here , much as they ... porphyry is obtained ; in other words , a number of crystals are seen embedded in a crystalline mass . Such rocks ...
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... porphyry especially common in Guernsey . The systems of crevices and fissures traversing the granitic rocks ; the compass - bearing of the principal veins , the mate- rials with which they are filled , and the relation these bear to the ...
... porphyry especially common in Guernsey . The systems of crevices and fissures traversing the granitic rocks ; the compass - bearing of the principal veins , the mate- rials with which they are filled , and the relation these bear to the ...
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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