A view of the present state of the Scilly islandsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 - 344 pagina's |
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Pagina 30
... carried staves in their hands , and lived by their cattle , straggling up and down like them , without a fixed abode or habitation ; and that they had mines of tin and lead , which commodities they used to barter with merchants for salt ...
... carried staves in their hands , and lived by their cattle , straggling up and down like them , without a fixed abode or habitation ; and that they had mines of tin and lead , which commodities they used to barter with merchants for salt ...
Pagina 43
... carried into effect . The Island was vigorously attacked by the fleet , and defended by the garrison . On the 16th , the Parliamentary forces had made themselves masters of Tresco and Bryher , on the former of which was a strong castle ...
... carried into effect . The Island was vigorously attacked by the fleet , and defended by the garrison . On the 16th , the Parliamentary forces had made themselves masters of Tresco and Bryher , on the former of which was a strong castle ...
Pagina 59
... carry considerable weight , is altogether erroneous ! Any chart of the West coast of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands will shew that at the Longships there are not more than eight fathoms of water ; - that the whole coarse of the ...
... carry considerable weight , is altogether erroneous ! Any chart of the West coast of Cornwall and the Scilly Islands will shew that at the Longships there are not more than eight fathoms of water ; - that the whole coarse of the ...
Pagina 71
... carrying away in its recess a small proportion , perhaps almost imperceptible , from their surfaces , it prepared the way for further attacks and more extensive conquests . What was carried off at every ebb , was deposited along the ...
... carrying away in its recess a small proportion , perhaps almost imperceptible , from their surfaces , it prepared the way for further attacks and more extensive conquests . What was carried off at every ebb , was deposited along the ...
Pagina 83
... that the smoke might be carried off to sea . On this subject , more will be found in a succeeding portion of this work . ( See Chap . V. ) Water is rather scarce , especially such as is desirable G 2 Chap . 111. ] THE SCILLY ISLANDS . 83.
... that the smoke might be carried off to sea . On this subject , more will be found in a succeeding portion of this work . ( See Chap . V. ) Water is rather scarce , especially such as is desirable G 2 Chap . 111. ] THE SCILLY ISLANDS . 83.
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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 late ledges Longships Lord Lord Godolphin Martin's Mary's mile nature nearly North noticed observed Off-Islands Old Town passage Peninis Phoenicians pilots Piper's Hole Pool Porth 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 wind yards
Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 336 - Methinks the phantoms of the dead appear ! But lo ! emerging from the watery grave, Again they float incumbent on the wave ! Again the dismal prospect opens round, The wreck, the shores, the dying and the drown'd ! And see ! enfeebled by repeated shocks, Those two who scramble on th...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 39 - 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.
Pagina 308 - How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee : 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Pagina 67 - How came these inhabitants, then, it may be asked, to vanish so, as that the present have no pretensions to any affinity, or connection of any kind, either in blood, language, or customs ? How came they to disappear, and leave so few traces of trade, plenty, and arts, and no posterity that we can hear of, behind them ?
Pagina 325 - Churches in England; applied to the Purposes of the Society for Promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels.
Pagina 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...