 | Henry Penruddocke Wyndham - 1794 - 178 pages
...acres. Some faint idea of this wonderful country may, perhaps, be conceived from the above defcription, which, from the towering hills above, appears to the eye like a level plain ; but which, when feen from the fea, rifes like a feries of gigantic fteps, that feem to lead* from the cliffs of the... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...briars, frequently arise from amidst a polygon enclosure of two or three acres." Some faint idea of this country may, perhaps, be conceived from the above...elevation, to the summit of the grand perpendicular wall. The houses of St. Lawrence are interspersed between these majestic ruins of nature; and its little... | |
 | Visitor - 1841 - 278 pages
...the huge rocks, covered with briars, frequently arise from amidst a polygon enclosure of two or three acres. Some faint idea of this wonderful country may,...that seem to lead from the cliffs of the shore, which arteven there of great elevation, to the summit of the grand perpendicular wall ; and the reader may... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1848 - 238 pages
...above description, which, from the towering hills above, appears to the eye like a level plain, but, when seen from the sea, rises like a series of gigantic steps, that seem to lead from the cliffs to the shore, which are even there of great elevation, to the summit of the grand perpendicular wall... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1854 - 298 pages
...above description, which, from the towering hills above appears to the eye like a level plain, but, when seen from the sea, rises like a series of gigantic steps, that seem to lead from the cliffs to the shore, which are even there of great elevation, to the summit of the grand perpendicular wall:... | |
 | W. Kidd - 1830 - 254 pages
...the huge rocks covered with briars, frequently arise from amidst a polygon enclosure of two or three acres. Some faint idea of this wonderful country may,...the grand perpendicular wall ; and the reader may probably think me justified in my general assertion of the peculiarity of this Undercliff, as I can... | |
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... but the fruitful patches are of all sizes and figures, and the huge rocks covered with briars, frequently arise from amidst a polygon enclosure of two or three acres. Some faint idea of this wonderful country may, perhaps, be conceived from the above... 