A Complete Catechism of the Descriptive Geography of EnglandLongmans & Company, 1856 - 150 pages |
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Abbey antiquity Bath Beacon beautiful Bedfordshire Bishop borough Brecknockshire Bridge Bristol Caernarvonshire called Cardigan Cardiganshire Carlisle Castle cataract cathedral caverns chalybeate Cheshire Chester Church Circuit coal-field coast Conway Cornwall Cumberland Dale Denbighshire Derbyshire Describe Devon Devonshire districts Dover Durham East Enumerate the principal extending falls feet high Flintshire formed Founded GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND Gloucester Gloucestershire grand Head Herefordshire Hill Hole Humber Islands Isle of Anglesea Kent Knights lakes Lancashire Lancaster Land's End Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London magnificent MARKET TOWNS Matlock Dale Mention the principal Merionethshire Midland Counties miles in length mineral Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Name navigable North of England North Wales Northern Counties Northumberland Oxford Pembroke Pembrokeshire picturesque Priory prospect relics remains remarkable river rock ruins Salisbury scenery seat Severn shire Shropshire side Snowdon Somersetshire South Wales springs Staffordshire stone summit Surrey Sussex Thames tower vale waterfalls West Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire yards Yorkshire
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Page 67 - Dun, Or Trent, who, like some earth-born giant, spreads His thirty arms along the indented meads ; Or sullen Mole that runneth underneath, Or Severn swift, guilty of maiden's death, Or rocky Avon, or of sedgy...
Page 27 - Just before and immediately after emancipation special assistance was given by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts...
Page 101 - Gwyn, or royal tribunal, is a circular hollow of an hundred and eighty feet in diameter, surrounded by an immense agger of earth and stones, evidently brought from some other place, there not being any mark of their being taken from the spot.
Page 43 - England, the archbishop of Canterbury is styled primate of all England, and the archbishop of York primate of England.
Page 74 - The upper fall consists of three steep rocks, over which the water foams into a deep black basin, overshadowed by the adjoining rocks. The other is formed by a broad sheet of water, precipitated down a slightly shelving rock, about 40 feet high. After the water has reached the bottom of the deep concavity, it rushes along a narrow rocky chasm, where rolling amid the shaggy rocks, it glistens among the scattered fragments...
Page 74 - The other is formed by a broad sheet of. water, precipitated down a slightly shelving rock, about 40 feet high. After the water has reached the bottom of the deep concavity, it rushes along a narrow rocky chasm, where, rolling amid the shaggy rocks, it glistens among the scattered fragments, and, falling from slope to slope, gains a smoother bed, and steals among the mazes of the vale.
Page 17 - ... are moulded on a comparatively minute scale, they are marked with all the agreeable interchange which constitutes picturesque beauty. In some parts, plains clothed in the richest verdure, watered by copious streams, and pasturing innumerable cattle, extend as far as the eye can reach : in others, gently rising hills, and bending vales, fertile in corn, waving with woods, and interspersed with flowery meadows, offer the most delightful landscapes of rural opulence and beauty.
Page 128 - ... five-peaked mountain) which is the highest in the several chains, of which it forms the centre : and from this place the ascent to its summit is usually made, being only seven miles distant from the town, whence guides from the principal inns are provided. From the highest point is obtained a fine prospect of vast extent, comprehending on the south, the hills of Cardiganshire and Radnorshire; on the west, Cardigan bay and St. George's channel ; on the north, Cader Idris and part of the Snowdon...
Page 127 - Ruthin ; enclosed by mountains, whose brown and barren summits form a fine contrast to the verdant meads and luxuriant fields beneath, which, as far as the eye can reach, present a most pleasing picture. Towns, villages, and mansions, thickly studded over the country, tend still more to enliven the cheering scene, which is exceedingly beautiful and attractive. This vale is the most extensive of any in Wales, being about twenty-four miles in length, above...
Page 43 - Province of Canterbury — Canterbury, London, Winchester, Litchfield and Coventry, Lincoln, Ely, Salisbury, Exeter, Bath and Wells, Chichester, Norwich, Worcester, Hereford, Rochester, Oxford, Peterborough, Gloucester and Bristol, LlandafF, St. David's, St. Asaph, and Bangor.