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... weather ; ex- posed to the incessant dash of the waves coming in from the Atlantic , which are thrown back by the coast of the Cotentin , only to meet a fresh arrival of others , all bound on the errand of destruction ; -the islands ...
... weather ; ex- posed to the incessant dash of the waves coming in from the Atlantic , which are thrown back by the coast of the Cotentin , only to meet a fresh arrival of others , all bound on the errand of destruction ; -the islands ...
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... weather - worn , and is being gradually torn to shreds . Alderney is a rounded mass : the Casquets are jagged pinnacles . The Chaussey islands are like the debris of a worn - out series of quarries . Each group has its own ...
... weather - worn , and is being gradually torn to shreds . Alderney is a rounded mass : the Casquets are jagged pinnacles . The Chaussey islands are like the debris of a worn - out series of quarries . Each group has its own ...
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... weather generally so pleasant ; that so little rain falls , so few fogs obscure the air , and so much comfort can be obtained at all seasons . Owing to their geographical position , these islands are rich in certain departments of ...
... weather generally so pleasant ; that so little rain falls , so few fogs obscure the air , and so much comfort can be obtained at all seasons . Owing to their geographical position , these islands are rich in certain departments of ...
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... weather . A small stream of water comes down to the western coast , and has been made use of to turn a wheel . Roads communicate from the Plat Saline to the town , which lies above , on the plateau , at a short distance . A neck of land ...
... weather . A small stream of water comes down to the western coast , and has been made use of to turn a wheel . Roads communicate from the Plat Saline to the town , which lies above , on the plateau , at a short distance . A neck of land ...
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... weather , be made use of for landing men and artillery . To strengthen as much as possible this part of the island , no less than six forts and batteries have been constructed , the total length of coast - line being only about two ...
... weather , be made use of for landing men and artillery . To strengthen as much as possible this part of the island , no less than six forts and batteries have been constructed , the total length of coast - line being only about two ...
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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