Sailing Tours: The Yachtsman's Guide to the Cruising Waters of the English Coast, Part 1L.U. Gill, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... rising ground , a cluster of old houses , an ancient church , and blue distance . So much for the future ; the present was a curling , tumbling , piling sea , yellow and frothy , a lifting prow , and then a plunge , stretching sails ...
... rising ground , a cluster of old houses , an ancient church , and blue distance . So much for the future ; the present was a curling , tumbling , piling sea , yellow and frothy , a lifting prow , and then a plunge , stretching sails ...
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... rising ground above Charlton are mellow in the sunlight , while , beyond , the wooded steep of Shooter's Hill throws back the golden glow . The breeze keeps fresh and shows a little indication to shift to the northward . Going down ...
... rising ground above Charlton are mellow in the sunlight , while , beyond , the wooded steep of Shooter's Hill throws back the golden glow . The breeze keeps fresh and shows a little indication to shift to the northward . Going down ...
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... rising of the sun , on the King's knoll , near a dark pool , there the steward holds his court . No light may be there , only the light of the stars . No pen or ink may be used , only a piece of coal . No sound is heard save a whisper ...
... rising of the sun , on the King's knoll , near a dark pool , there the steward holds his court . No light may be there , only the light of the stars . No pen or ink may be used , only a piece of coal . No sound is heard save a whisper ...
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... rising , and take care to have plenty of the tide still to run , in case one touches . The channel up to Leigh is very shallow . If ever one is caught off there in a south or south - easterly gale it is not hard to understand why those ...
... rising , and take care to have plenty of the tide still to run , in case one touches . The channel up to Leigh is very shallow . If ever one is caught off there in a south or south - easterly gale it is not hard to understand why those ...
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... rising , the effect will be all the more beautiful . Memories of the ages past must surely come to the least imaginative . This same scene has been familiar to so many eyes , and now the eyrie is left desolate to be enjoyed by chance ...
... rising , the effect will be all the more beautiful . Memories of the ages past must surely come to the least imaginative . This same scene has been familiar to so many eyes , and now the eyrie is left desolate to be enjoyed by chance ...
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abreast ahead Aldborough Alde AMATEURS anchor anchorage ancient ashore bank barges Bawdsey beach Beacon Blackwater boat breeze Brightlingsea Buxey Castle channel Chelmondiston church Clacton Cliff cloth gilt coast Colne colour craft creek Crouch cruise Darcy Ding Dovercourt east eastern entrance Erwarton Essex fair Felixstowe Flats Hadleigh Castle Hall Hanford Water harbour Harwich head hill Horsea Island Illustrated Island keep land Landguard Layer Marney Towers Leigh light London look Lord low water mainsail Maldon Manningtree manor Maplin Maplin Sands mark Marney martello tower Mersea miles narrow Naze nearly night North north-east Orford Haven Orwell passing pier Pinmill Point pretty red and white river River Alde round sailing Sands shingle ship shore Shotley side Southend Spit Spitway stand starboard steamers steer Stour Swin Thames tide Tollesbury Tolleshunt D'Arcy turn vessel village Walton weather wind Wrabness yacht
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