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 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... Distance from the near- est Head - lands of England , France , and Ire- land . Their general Appearance , Number , Extent , Dimensions , and Population . - Their Importance to Great Britain demonstrated , from a variety of ...
... Distance from the near- est Head - lands of England , France , and Ire- land . Their general Appearance , Number , Extent , Dimensions , and Population . - Their Importance to Great Britain demonstrated , from a variety of ...
Pagina 2
... 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 articles connected merely with the local naviga- tion of the Isles , and therefore wholly ...
... 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 articles connected merely with the local naviga- tion of the Isles , and therefore wholly ...
Pagina 3
... distance of ten or twelve miles , the Islands appear in one connected mass , yet with numerous abrupt ridges ; but , seen from each other , the Islands of St. Mary's , St. Mar- tin's , and Tresco , seem nearly level at top , and about ...
... distance of ten or twelve miles , the Islands appear in one connected mass , yet with numerous abrupt ridges ; but , seen from each other , the Islands of St. Mary's , St. Mar- tin's , and Tresco , seem nearly level at top , and about ...
Pagina 6
... distance from the principal Islands , as to be also wholly useless . The rest bear a short coarse grass , and are fit for feeding cattle in Summer , when a few families visit them for some weeks , for the purpose of cutting sea - weed ...
... distance from the principal Islands , as to be also wholly useless . The rest bear a short coarse grass , and are fit for feeding cattle in Summer , when a few families visit them for some weeks , for the purpose of cutting sea - weed ...
Pagina 23
... distance between Scilly and the establishments of the enterpris- ing Phoenicians was much shortened ; I submit a conjecture that the Scilly Islands might have supplied tin ( through the medium of their Tyrian visitors ) to the land of ...
... distance between Scilly and the establishments of the enterpris- ing Phoenicians was much shortened ; I submit a conjecture that the Scilly Islands might have supplied tin ( through the medium of their Tyrian visitors ) to the land of ...
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A View of the Present State of the Scilly Islands:: Exhibiting Their Vast ... George Woodley Volledige weergave - 1822 |
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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 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
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 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 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 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 - 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.
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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.