A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands:: Exhibiting Their Vast Importance to the British Empire; the Improvements of which They are Susceptible; and a Particlar Account of the Means Lately Adopted for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Inhabitants, by the Establishment and Extension of Their FisheriesF. C. and J. Rivington; Longman, and Company; Carthew, County Library, Truro; and all other booksellers., 1822 - 344 páginas |
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... seen for myself the various places which I have attempted to delineate ; and that I have en- deavoured , by reflection , observation , and en- quiry , to form a correct judgment of the subjects on which I have ventured to offer an ...
... seen for myself the various places which I have attempted to delineate ; and that I have en- deavoured , by reflection , observation , and en- quiry , to form a correct judgment of the subjects on which I have ventured to offer an ...
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... seen by the naked eye , on a clear day ) between 9 and 10 leagues . From London , their distance is 320 miles.a a Although it is not intended , in this work , to follow the examples of Heath and Troutbeck , by inserting a va- riety of ...
... seen by the naked eye , on a clear day ) between 9 and 10 leagues . From London , their distance is 320 miles.a a Although it is not intended , in this work , to follow the examples of Heath and Troutbeck , by inserting a va- riety of ...
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... seen , apparently combined in one long low line , stretching on the verge of the horizon like a slight cloud . St. Martin's Head , ( the Northernmost point of the Islands , on which is a white day - mark ) is first perceived ; but the ...
... seen , apparently combined in one long low line , stretching on the verge of the horizon like a slight cloud . St. Martin's Head , ( the Northernmost point of the Islands , on which is a white day - mark ) is first perceived ; but the ...
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... seen from St. Mary's Road , the general appearance is certainly dreary and uninviting . The stran- ger is , therefore , somewhat agreeably surprized , on entering the Pool , at finding a harbour , quay , town , and garrison , with such ...
... seen from St. Mary's Road , the general appearance is certainly dreary and uninviting . The stran- ger is , therefore , somewhat agreeably surprized , on entering the Pool , at finding a harbour , quay , town , and garrison , with such ...
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... seen this statement corroborated by any other writer . On the other hand , Pliny , ' speaking of those metals which are still the staple commodity of Cornwall , as they formerly were of its neighbouring Isles of Scilly , says , " Of ...
... seen this statement corroborated by any other writer . On the other hand , Pliny , ' speaking of those metals which are still the staple commodity of Cornwall , as they formerly were of its neighbouring Isles of Scilly , says , " Of ...
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A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands: Exhibiting Their Vast ... George Woodley Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
Términos y frases comunes
abbots of Tavistock acres Agnes amongst ancient Annet appearance basons boats breadth Bryher burrows Carn Castle channel Church cliffs coast Cornwall Cressa cultivated denomination different Islands distance distress Duchy of Cornwall East England erected expence extending fathoms feet high fish fishery formerly forty garrison Godolphin grant ground Gugh half Harbour Heath height Helen's hill hogshead houses Hugh Town hundred inhabitants Isles Isles of Scilly kelp land Land's End ledges Longships Lord Lord Proprietor Martin's Mary's mile nature nearly North noticed observed Off-Islands Old Town passage Peninis Phoenicians pilots Piper's Hole Pool Porth Porth Cressa present probably quay Rat Island remains remarkable rock called rocky Samson sand sandy says Scilly Islands shew ships shore Society for Promoting soil Star Castle stones Teän tide tion Tresco Troutbeck twelve twenty vessels walls weather West White Island whole yards
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Página 24 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Página viii - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 19 - Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean : nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation : and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
Página 49 - ... the remainder of the day is passed in gaiety and mirth. In the small fishing village of Ambleteuse, in the neighbourhood of Boulogne, lived a peasant, Francois Gerval by name, whose only wealth consisted in those mental possessions which dignify even poverty. By the...
Página 39 - all the churches of Sully, with their appurtenances," and the land as the monks or hermits held it in the time of King Edward the Confessor, and Burgal, Bishop of Cornwall.
Página 325 - Churches in England; applied to the Purposes of the Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels.
Página 115 - About three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the kiln is usually lighted, which is done by placing a little ignited furze into the bottom of the pit, and gently strewing some of the driest ore-weed on the flame, which, by having the fuel continually renewed, in a short time becomes and remains a lofty and vivid blaze, surmounted by a column of snowwhite smoke...
Página 68 - I conclude therefore" says he, " that these Islands have undergone some great catastrophe; and besides the apparent diminution of their islets by sea and tempest, must have suffered greatly by a subsidence of the land, (the common consequence of earthquakes) attended by a sudden inundation in those parts where the above-mentioned ruins, fences, mines, and other things of which we have no vestiges now remaining, formerly stood. This inundation probably destroyed many of the ancient inhabitants, and...
Página 191 - Water, descending, as it distills from the Sides of the rocky Passage: By the Fall of Water heard, farther in, it is probable there may be rocky Descents in the Passage: The Drippings from the Sides have worn the Passage, as far as it can be seen, into very various angular Surfaces.
Página 20 - Druses, that a mineral was discovered which produced both lead and silver; though, as such a discovery would have ruined the whole district by attracting the attention of the Turks, they made haste to destroy every vestige of it.