The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain: Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot, Volume 2George Virtue, 1842 |
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Page 121 - Earth has not a plain So boundless or so beautiful as thine ; The eagle's vision cannot take it in : The lightning's wing, too weak to sweep its space, Sinks half-way o'er it like a wearied bird : It is the mirror of the stars, where all Their hosts within the concave firmament, Gay marching to the music of the spheres, 'Can see themselves at once.
Page 22 - Castle, built upon the margin of the sea, so that the walls of one of the towers seem only a continuation of a perpendicular rock, the foot of which is beaten by the waves.
Page 155 - The government of the town is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors.
Page 136 - HAIL to thy face and odours, glorious Sea ! Twere thanklessness in me to bless thee not, Great beauteous Being! in whose breath and smile My heart beats calmer, and my very mind Inhales salubrious thoughts.
Page 94 - ... feet from the fastenings in the rock. The first three-masted vessel passed under the bridge in 1826. Her topmasts were nearly as high as a frigate, but they cleared twelve feet and a half below the centre of the roadway. The suspending power of the chains was calculated at 2016 tons.
Page 27 - We were enclosed by a natural wall, rising steep on every side to a height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement. The interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom. Round us was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an unknown profundity of water. If I had any malice against a walking spirit, instead of laying him in the Red Sea, I would condemn him to reside in the Buller of Buchan.
Page 154 - East coast one mile to the North of the village of Pongwi. " 2. The District of Mwera, bounded to the North by the Southern boundary of the District of...
Page 7 - It is reported in old times, upon the saide rock there was a bell, fixed upon a tree or timber, which rang continually, being moved by the sea, giving notice to the saylers of the danger. This bell or clocke was...
Page 27 - He that ventures to look downward sees that if his foot should slip, he must fall from his dreadful elevation upon stones on one side or into the water on the other. We, however, went round and were glad when the circuit was completed.
Page 4 - I raised the pavement-stone just before the pulpit, in the night tyme, and digged under it ane hole, and put them in there, and filled up the hole, and layed down the stone just as it was before, and removed the mould that remained, that none would have...