قراءة كتاب Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.
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Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.
LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS.
- I.—Norris Castle
- II.—Pulpit Rock
- III.—Carisbrooke Castle
- IV.—West Cowes
- V.—Osbourne
- VI.—Town and Pier of Ryde
- VII.—View from Bembridge Down
- VIII.—Shanklin
- IX.—Shanklin Church
- X.—Cooke's Castle
- XI.—The ancient Parish-church of Bonchurch
- XII.—Ventnor
- XIII.—Steephill
- XIV.—St. Lawrence Church
- XV.—St. Lawrence Well
- XVI.—The Undercliff near Mount Cleeves.
- XVII.—The new Light-house near Niton
- XVIII.—Blackgang Chine
- XIX.—Freshwater Bay
- XX.—Watcombe Bay
- XXI.—Scratchell's Bay and the Needle Rocks
- XXII.—Map of the Isle of Wight
CHAPTER I.
THE PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THE ISLAND AS THE OBJECT OF
A SUMMER'S EXCURSION.
Variety is the characteristic charm of the Isle of Wight; the scenery being in fact a most happy combination of the grand and romantic, the sylvan and marine—throughout a close interchange of hills and dales, intersected by streams and rivers: combining the quiet of rural life with the fashionable gaiety of a watering-place, or the bustle of a crowded sea-port. But generally, its landscapes are more distinguished for beauty than sublimity, and hence the very appropriate designation of "the Garden of England!" an emphatic compliment cheerfully paid by the thousands annually visiting its shores for pleasure or for health: and perhaps there is scarcely another spot in the kingdom, of the same narrow limits, which can concentrate more of those qualities that at once charm the eye and animate the soul. Nor should it be overlooked how large a source of interest is derived from the proximity of those two celebrated towns, Southampton and Portsmouth: and the beautiful termination given to most of the open prospects by the retiring distances on the opposite coast.
But the crowning beauty of the Island is certainly the Sea! viewed in all the