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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 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