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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... following sheets . Of the various authors who have treated of the Scilly Islands , Heath and Troutbeck alone appear to have enjoyed the advantage of an intimate acquaintance with their sub- ject by residing viii PREFACE .
... following sheets . Of the various authors who have treated of the Scilly Islands , Heath and Troutbeck alone appear to have enjoyed the advantage of an intimate acquaintance with their sub- ject by residing viii PREFACE .
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... various grants and charters , which the author has made from the Tower Records , are valuable to the antiquarian and historian ; but of the work at large it must be observed ( how interesting soever it might once have been ) that it has ...
... various grants and charters , which the author has made from the Tower Records , are valuable to the antiquarian and historian ; but of the work at large it must be observed ( how interesting soever it might once have been ) that it has ...
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... 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 opinion . Having no other ...
... 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 opinion . Having no other ...
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... Various denominations of Scilly by the ancients . - Manners and dress of the aboriginal Islanders . - Articles barter- ed by the Phoenicians . - Remarkable anecdote of a Phænician ship - master . - Scilly under the Romans , by whom it ...
... Various denominations of Scilly by the ancients . - Manners and dress of the aboriginal Islanders . - Articles barter- ed by the Phoenicians . - Remarkable anecdote of a Phænician ship - master . - Scilly under the Romans , by whom it ...
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... various places , to establish these points ; which , indeed , the contiguity of the Islands to Britain renders more than pro- bable . Yet , such was the general ignorance respecting them , in those ages of darkness and barbarity , that ...
... various places , to establish these points ; which , indeed , the contiguity of the Islands to Britain renders more than pro- bable . Yet , such was the general ignorance respecting them , in those ages of darkness and barbarity , that ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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.