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Appledore Azores Bahamas beach beautiful Bermuda boat breeze called Cañadas Canary Cape Captain Castle character Charlottetown charming church cliffs clouds coast color crater crew English Entry Island Fayal feet high fish fishermen Funchal gale Grindstone Island Guanches Guernsey harbor head height houses hundred feet Icod Isle of Wight Isles of Shoals islets land lava light light-house Madeira Magdalen Islands miles morning mountains narrow Nassau Newfoundland night ocean Orotava passed peak Pico picturesque pleasant Ponta Delgada port precipices Prince Edward Island reached reefs resort rising road rocks running sail Santa Cruz Sark scarce scene scenery schooner season seemed seen ship shore side slope sometimes spot Star Island steamer steep streets summer surf Teneriffe thousand tide town trade-wind valley Ventnor vessel village volcanic wall weather Wight wind winter wrecked yachts
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Page 1 - O, health ! health ! the blessing of the rich ! the riches of the poor ! who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this world without thee ? Be not then so sparing of your purses, honourable gentlemen, as to abridge the natural course of life
Page 65 - ... In the same reign Prynne was confined here for nearly three years. Here he wrote a description of the castle more quaint than poetical. "Mont Orgeuil Castle is a lofty pile, Within the eastern part of Jersey isle, Seated upon a rock, full large and high. Close by the sea-shore, next to Normandie ; Near to a sandy bay, -where boats do ride, Within a peere, safe from both winds and tide.
Page 112 - Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thon soldest him on Good Friday last, for a cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg? P. Hen. Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have his bargain ; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs, he will give the devil his dno.
Page 1 - ... Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus, embracing a ride of over One Thousand Miles, from the head of the Persian Gulf to Antioch on the Mediterranean. By GRATTAN GEARY, Editor of the Times of India. 2 vols., crown 8vo, cloth extra, with many Illustrations, and a Route Map. Atlantic Islands as Resorts of Health and Pleasure. By SGW BENJAMIN, Author of " Contemporary Art in Europe,
Page 85 - Island stretches the broad and navigable figoon formed by Wolf and Alright islands on either side, with their long sand dunes that unite them with Grosse Isle and Coffin Island. Grand Entry Harbor is a fine port of refuge between the latter two islands, which are the most common resort of the seals. Detached a vessel to get by the spit withont...
Page 70 - ... southward, and only seven miles from Guernsey, is Sark, one of the smallest, most curious, most interesting, most elusive, most desolate, most beautiful, most dangerous, most sublime, of the Atlantic islands. The old legend-makers, who have sung such weird tales of phantom islands, now appearing close at hand, then vanishing like enchantment, must have drawn their inspiration from watching Sark from Guernsey. On some days it is so distinct and looks so near that cliffs and houses and even men...
Page 76 - ISLANDS. which it is separated by a narrow and dangerous channel. Pleasant Bay is the bight formed by Sandy Hook round by Basque Harbor to Grindstone Island, and is a commodious and safe roadstead in all but easterly winds, when vessels must cut and run for the other side of the island, or make a dash for Havre Aubert if taken too suddenly. In the terrific...
Page 75 - Albert proved to be, without exception, the most clumsy and dangerous craft I ever stepped foot on, considering the perilous nature of the waters she navigates. The weather was fine and the wind fair, so we managed to average nearly six knots, which took us in sight of the islands at sunrise. It was a clear, cheerful day after the storm. Nearly a hundred sail of our Gloucester fishermen dotted the horizon, and the crests of Amherst, Alright in the extreme distance, and Entry directly ahead and near...
Page 56 - ... of their sisters of Greece or America, they would present a nearly perfect type. of female beauty. And the children are, of course, charming; and even when they run out of the peasant houses in the remote districts and beg the passerby for " doubles," there is a witchery about them seldom found in beggars elsewhere. But to speak of beggars in Guernsey is almost absurd, for extreme poverty is nearly unknown, while almost every tiller of the land cultivates a patrimony inherited from his ancestors...
Page 215 - ... and is it not pretty sport to pull up two-pence, six-pence, and twelve-pence as fast as you can haul and throw a line?