Category: History - British
For, lo! the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waste, Music and measure both doth understand: For his great crystal eye is always cast Up to the moon, and on her fixed fast: And as she danceth in her pallid sphere, So danceth he about the centre...
LET not the plan proposed in the previous chapter make too hasty an impression, or cause the reader to be too sanguine as to the result, however it may bear the semblance to tru...
2. CHAPTER II.ANOTHER impulse communicated to the waters of the ocean arises from its currents. These are caused by the winds blowing for many months in one direction, which produce on an exp...
1. CHAPTER I.For, lo! the sea that fleets about the land, And like a girdle clips her solid waste, Music and measure both doth understand: For his great crystal eye is always cast Up to the...
10. CHAPTER X.THE AUTHOR’S PLAN FOR EVENTUALLY COUNTERACTING THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF THE GERMAN OCEAN ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF NORFOLK, COMPRISED WITHIN A DISTANCE OF THIRTY MILES, EXTENDI...
8. CHAPTER VIII.THE cliffs {55} extending from Hasborough to or a little beyond Cromer, are found, upon approaching near, to be extremely irregular. In some places small promontories or points...
4. CHAPTER IV.REMARKS ON THE GERMAN OCEAN CONTINUED.—ITS RESTORATIVE POWERS ON OTHER COASTS DEMONSTRATED.—INCREASE OF THE SHOALS OF SAND OFF HASBOROUGH, CAISTER, &C.—THE SMALLER SHOALS OF SAN...
5. CHAPTER V.MEANS TAKEN TO ARREST THE DEPREDATIONS OF THE GERMAN OCEAN BY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.—THE ERECTION OF JETTIES, PIERS, AND GROINS CONSIDERED.—THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS ARISI...
3. CHAPTER III.THE workings of Nature itself, under the control of an Allwise and Omnipotent Being, ever exhibit a restorative as well as a destructive power. Its laws and constitution being n...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE RESTORATIVE POWER OF THE GERMAN OCEAN PROVED IN CERTAIN LOCALITIES.—ASSISTANCE GIVEN TO IT FROM THE STRANDING OF A VESSEL AT PURBECK, AND ON THIS COAST AT HASBOROUGH.—HILLS...
7. CHAPTER VII.To combat successfully with so restless and powerful an agent as the ocean, requires great consideration and attention; for the obstacles presented on this coast are of no ordin...
9. CHAPTER IX.OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CLIFFS CONTINUED.—LAND-SPRINGS, THEIR INJURIOUS EFFECTS, WITH PLAN TO COUNTERACT THEM.—REDUCTION OF THE CLIFFS CONSIDERED ADVISABLE, ESPECIALLY WHERE GREAT...