. The earth and its inhabitants ... east, but the western rises intobold cliffs of old red sandstone and granite. It is deficient in natural harbours,and cliffs of chalk alternate with stretches of marsh and fiat tracts of clay ; butimmediately to the west of Selsey Bill the safe roadstead of Spithead opens outbetween the mainland and the Isle of Wight, communicating with the spaciousharbour of Portsmouth and the well-sheltered estuary leading up to Southampton. 14 THE BRITISH ISLES. Farther west still, amongst the many bays which indent the coasts of Devonand Cornwall, the foremost place belo
. The earth and its inhabitants ... east, but the western rises intobold cliffs of old red sandstone and granite. It is deficient in natural harbours,and cliffs of chalk alternate with stretches of marsh and fiat tracts of clay ; butimmediately to the west of Selsey Bill the safe roadstead of Spithead opens outbetween the mainland and the Isle of Wight, communicating with the spaciousharbour of Portsmouth and the well-sheltered estuary leading up to Southampton. 14 THE BRITISH ISLES. Farther west still, amongst the many bays which indent the coasts of Devonand Cornwall, the foremost place belongs to Plymouth Sound, which ranks withChatham and Portsmouth as a great naval station. If we now turn to a consideration of the principal features of Ireland, weshall find that they differ essentially from those presented by the more favouredsister island. Less varied in its contour, it exhibits likewise greater simplicity in Fig. 8.—Plymouth Sound and the an Admiralty Chart. Scale 1 : 150,000. ^1 ,7.^^/?r^) ^. -/«
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