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... walls of rock . On the north side of the island , the ground slopes gradually towards a succession of bays , more or less tame . It will now be desirable to communicate to the reader some idea of the island , by a survey of the coast ...
... walls of rock . On the north side of the island , the ground slopes gradually towards a succession of bays , more or less tame . It will now be desirable to communicate to the reader some idea of the island , by a survey of the coast ...
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... walls are absolutely vertical . The rock , having a stratification parallel with that of the cliff , stands — a huge , square block of stone - on a base , whose area is some two or three thousand square feet . It is at least thirty ...
... walls are absolutely vertical . The rock , having a stratification parallel with that of the cliff , stands — a huge , square block of stone - on a base , whose area is some two or three thousand square feet . It is at least thirty ...
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... wall of rock , a couple of hun- dred feet deep , displays a beautiful olive - coloured porphyry , crossed by ... walls to these softer hollows , they are often in the highest degree picturesque , for the action of the sea having ...
... wall of rock , a couple of hun- dred feet deep , displays a beautiful olive - coloured porphyry , crossed by ... walls to these softer hollows , they are often in the highest degree picturesque , for the action of the sea having ...
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... walls are of island sand - stone , with quoins of Caen stone - a selection much to be regretted , as this latter stone is eminently ill adapted for out- door work , in such a climate as that of Alderney . Accordingly , although not ...
... walls are of island sand - stone , with quoins of Caen stone - a selection much to be regretted , as this latter stone is eminently ill adapted for out- door work , in such a climate as that of Alderney . Accordingly , although not ...
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... wall and esplanade . The buildings near the sea are irregular , and for the most part poor ; but not unpicturesque from a distance . Behind them the rising ground is much broken and is covered with houses and other buildings , rising ...
... wall and esplanade . The buildings near the sea are irregular , and for the most part poor ; but not unpicturesque from a distance . Behind them the rising ground is much broken and is covered with houses and other buildings , rising ...
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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