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Abbey acres ancient banks Bart bathing beautiful Bishop borough branch Bridge building built Capel Curig Castle Cathedral celebrated Chapel Cheshire cliffs coast contains cross Crystal Palace Distance from station Duke Earl east erected feet high feet long formerly founded Gothic Grammar School Gweedore handsome harbour Henry VIII Hill Holyhead Hotel House Island Junction lake Lancashire Liverpool Llanberis Loch Loch Lomond London Lough Lough Corrib Main Line continued MARKET DAY.-Saturday MARKET DAY.-Thursday MARKET DAYS.-Wednesday market town meet the trains miles long MONEY ORDER OFFICE monuments mountains neighbourhood Norman Oban old church OMNIBUSES meet Palace Park parliamentary borough pass the stations picturesque pier POPULATION port Priory Queen railway rebuilt river road rock Roman round Royal ruins scenery side situated spire Staffa stone Street style thence tower Town Hall Tudor style Vale valley viaduct vicinity village Western Western Main Line
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Page 82 - Oh ! the purple abbots, what a spot had they chosen to slumber in ! The scene is so beautifully tranquil, yet so lively, that they seem only to have retired into the world.
Page 102 - JAY have always at command experienced Dressmakers and Milliners, who act as Travellers, so that, in the event of immediate Mourning being required, or any other sudden emergency for Dress, one can be despatched to any part of the kingdom on receipt of letter or telegram, without any expense whatever to the purchaser. All articles are marked in plain figures, and charges are the same as if the Goods were bought for ready money at the Warehouse.
Page 34 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.
Page x - Alas! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.
Page 108 - England, he was not so with mankind. He therefore directed the men to be sent back to their work, with presents; observing, that the Eddystone light-house was so situated, as to be of equal service to all nations having occasion to navigate the channel between England and France.
Page 108 - Another man, a shoemaker, who was engaged to be the light-keeper, when in the boat which conveyed him thither, the skipper addressing him said, " How happens it, friend Jacob, that you should choose to go and be cooped up here as a light-keeper, when you can on shore, as I am told, earn half-a-crown and three shillings a-day in making leathern hose (leathern pipes so called), whereas the light-keeper's salary is but £25 a-year, which is scarce ten shillings a-week.
Page 35 - Seine, Glide sweet in monie a tunefu' line ! But, Willie, set your fit to mine, An' cock your crest, We'll gar our streams and burnies shine . Up wi
Page 82 - The ruins are vast, and contain fragments of beautiful fretted roofs, pendant in the air, with all variety of Gothic patterns of windows topped round and round with ivy.
Page 14 - In l£Jl>. when Belgium rebelled against Holland and gained its independence, it was inferior to the latter as regards means of communication, and as a natural consequence a* regards commerce.
Page 108 - Smeaton observed, that it rose from the surface with a large swelling base, which at the height of one diameter is generally reduced by an elegant curve, concave to the eye, to a diameter, less by at least onethird; and sometimes, to half its original base. From thence, its taper diminishing more...