Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France . Falmouth ...... 8 The Botallack Mine, Cornwall 9 Lands End, Cornwall 10 Dartmouth .... . 11 Dartmouth Castle .... 12 St. Malo 13 The Approach to St. Malo 14 The Coast of Britany, near Doll . 15 Portsmouth Harbour 16 The Semaphore, Portsmouth 17 Portchester Castle .... 18 The Needles, Isle of Wight 19 Brading Harbour, Isle of Wight 20 The Arched Rock, Isle of Wight 21 Powderham Park, Exmouth 22 The Hamoaze, Plymouth . 66810121516181920252642444546495155 Vlll LIST OF THE PLATES. 23 Stone
Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France . Falmouth ...... 8 The Botallack Mine, Cornwall 9 Lands End, Cornwall 10 Dartmouth .... . 11 Dartmouth Castle .... 12 St. Malo 13 The Approach to St. Malo 14 The Coast of Britany, near Doll . 15 Portsmouth Harbour 16 The Semaphore, Portsmouth 17 Portchester Castle .... 18 The Needles, Isle of Wight 19 Brading Harbour, Isle of Wight 20 The Arched Rock, Isle of Wight 21 Powderham Park, Exmouth 22 The Hamoaze, Plymouth . 66810121516181920252642444546495155 Vlll LIST OF THE PLATES. 23 Stonehouse Bridge, Plymouth 24 Rye, Old Harbour 25 Hastings from the Sea 26 Martello Tower 27 East Cliff, Hastings 28 Havre de Grace 29 Dieppe .... 30 Boulogne, Upper Harbour 31 Boulogne, Old Pier . 32 Wreck on the Coast of Boulogne 33 Calais ..... 34 Roque de Guet, Guernsey . 35 St. Pierre Port, Guernsey 36 Dover Pier 37 Ramsgate .... 38 Broadstairs 39 Eddystone Light-House 40 worthbarrow bay, dorsetshire Page . 60 . 65 . 68 . 71 . 72 . 75 . 80 .. 87 . 89 . 90 . 96 . 100 . 104 . 106 . 114 , 119 . 123 . 126. © STANFIELDS COAST SCENERY. SAINT MICHAELS MOUNT, CORNWALL. St. Michaels Mount, which has been so universally extolled forits peculiarly majestic appearance, is an extra-parochial liberty in thehundred of Penrith, county of Cornwall, and three quarters of a milesouth of the town of Marazion, with which it is connected by a narrowbank of pebbles. At high tide this bank is overflowed, when the Mountappears a complete insulated mass of rock, gradually diminishing in sizefrom the base, until it terminates in an ancient castellated and embattledbuilding, situated two hundred and forty feet above the level of the the summit, the prospect is of no ordinary interest: surrounded bythe ocean, the magnitude of which is contrasted with the insignificantobjects on the neighbouring shore, and the rude aspect of the dwellings ofthe fishermen at the base of the Mount, it presents a sc
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