Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14596478778)

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Title: Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France

Year: 1847 (1840s)

Authors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867

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Publisher: London : Smith, Elder and Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ftwelve pounds per annum, affords for every class of scholars a sufficientvariety of instruction to qualify them for any pursuit for which they maybe destined, whether prime minister, parish minister, or other lessonerous duty. The building is a striking object in the prospect of thetown from the sea; it is situated on the high ground at the back of thetown ; it is of considerable extent, and its architecture though perhapsnot in quite correct taste, has a monastic and almost oriental appearance,and from its situation in a spacious area, has an air of quiet, harmonizingwith the ideas entertained of a pile of buildings devoted to study. There is another public institution in Guernsey which is creditable tothe moral feelings of the islanders, as that just mentioned is to theirtastes and intellectual; we refer to the establishment called (a misnomer)the Hospital; it embraces the dissemination of almost every descrip-tion of charity; it partakes of the nature and supplies the place of the

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- GUERNSEY. 1 0 O poor houses, the workhouses, the places of refuge for the destitute, and insome respects the national schools of this country. The system pursuedhere is one of the most liberal, and at the same time economical andorderly that can be imagined ; it requires only conformity to its rules, asa return for supplying almost every want of its inmates, and neitheryouth nor age, sex, religion, or country, form a valid ground of exclusion. The fish market of St. Peters Port, is a new building, and for conve-nience, and the abundance of its supplies, is unrivalled by any marketin Europe. It is a hundred and ninety feet in length, and broad andlofty in proportion. The interior, which is light and airy, has a doublerow of marble slabs extending the whole length of the building, con-stantly supplied with abundance of fresh water, the view of which isperfectly beautiful. The two views of Roque de Guet, Cobo Bay,—and St. Peters Port, areeminently characteristic of the scenery of the

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