 | 1818 - 590 pages
...some other parts of the coast, but oflVr a series of points which are often quite sharp and spiry. Deep, rugged chasms divide the strata in many places,...and not a vestige of vegetation appears in any part. The tints of the cliff are so bright and so varied, that they have not the appearance of any thing... | |
 | Thomas Brettell - Isle of Wight (England) - 1844 - 220 pages
...These offer a series of points, of a sort of scolloped form, and which are often quite sharp and spiry. Deep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places,...and so varied, that they have not the appearance of any thing natural. Deep purplish red, dusky blue, bright ochreous yellow, gray, nearly approaching... | |
 | Wight Isle of - 1846 - 252 pages
...These offer a series of points of a sort of scolloped form, and which are often quite sharp and spiry. Deep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places, and not a vestage of vegetation appears in any part. All is wild ruin. The tints of these cliffs are so bright... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...variously-coloured strata at once arrest the eye of the spectator, the tints of the cliff's being so bright and varied that they have not the appearance of anything natural. Deep purplish red, dusky blue, bright ochreous yellow, grey nearly approaching to white, and absolute black, succeed each other, as sharply... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...some other parts of the coast ; but offer a series of points which are often quite sharp and spiry. Deep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places,...and not a vestige of vegetation appears in any part. The tints of the cliff are so bright and so varied, that they have not the appearance of anything natural.... | |
 | Charles Knight - England - 1851 - 492 pages
...other parts of the coast ; but offer a series of points which are often quite sharp and spiry. Dcep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places, and not a vestige of vegetation appears in any part. The tints of the eliff are so bright and so varied, that they have not the appearanee of anything natural.... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...some other parts of the coast, but offer a series of points which are often q-ute sharp and spiry. Deep rugged chasms divide the strata in many places,...and not a vestige of vegetation appears in any part. The tints of the cliff are so bright and so varied, that they have not the appearance of anything natural.... | |
 | Thomas Nelson & Sons - Isle of Wight (England) - 1859 - 166 pages
...the coast; but offer a series of points which are often quite sharp and spiry. . . . The tints of the cliffs are so bright and so varied that they have...anything natural. Deep purplish red, dusky blue, bright ochreous yellow, grey and black, succeed one another as sharply defined as the stripes in silk" This... | |
 | England, South East - 1861 - 336 pages
...the snowy Needles, is very curious and delightful The strata are vertically arranged, and their tints are so bright and so varied that they have not the appearance of anything natural:— " Deep purplish-red, dusky blue, bright ochreous-yellow, grey approaching nearly to white, and absolute black,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Isle of Wight (England) - 1862 - 282 pages
...shrubs, but offer a series of points of a scalloped form, and which are often sharp and pinnacled. Deep, rugged chasms divide the strata in many places, and not a trace of vegetation appears in any part. All is wild ruin ! The tints of the cliffs are so bright and... | |
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... wonderfully contrasted by the torn forms and vivid colouring of the clay cliffs on the opposite side. These do not... 
