Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14783126475)

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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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rse of this work obtained,—the idea entertained by the shrewdcountryman was, that the funds which had been originally appropriated to the preservation ofthe haibour, had been expended by the monks in erecting the steeple of this church. I I 122 liROADSTAIRS. The view of Broadstairs given in this work, shows its elevated situation,and whether the picturesque wood-work in the foreground, or the viewsthat the imagination will picture from the high cliffs on each side arelikely to be most attractive, will depend upon individual taste. Thosewho go armed with telescopes, may mount the cliffs when the nakedeye will perceive the shipping in the Downs, and the assistance of theirlong-sighted companion will introduce them to an intimate acquaintancewith the opposite coast of France. The more idle and dreamy may seatthemselves in listless speculation below, count the timbers in the pier,the waves that come murmuring to the shore—think they are thinking,and bless their stars they are at ease.
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•> a 123 EDDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE. In a note to the description of Plymouth, we have already stated that theEddystone Light-House* is built on a rock in the Channel, about fifteenmiles south-south-west from the citadel of Plymouth. The few particu-lars relating to this magnificent and scientific structure, not beforenoticed, need occupy but a very small compass. The congeries ofirregular rocks upon which the light-house is erected, are exposed to theheavy swells from the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic Ocean, whichsend the waves breaking over them with prodigious fury. The rocksare supposed to have obtained their appellation of Eddystone from thegreat variety of contrary sets of the tide, or current, flowing from thedifferent points of the British Channel. In the year 1696, under theauthority of Queen Elizabeth, a statute for setting up marks and signsfor the sea, Mr. Henry Winstanley,f of Littlebury in Essex, commencedthe erection of a light-house, which he completed after the expir