Lord Orford's Voyage Round the Fens in 1774White, 1868 - 107 من الصفحات |
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Admiral amongst appearance arrived attended bait bank Benwick board the Fleet boats Bodsey Gravel breakfast cabin carpenters caught Centaurus chaise Chimera course crops Denver Sluice dined dinner eels entrance Eriswell Farrington FASSET BAY fish Fleet weighed Anchor four o'clock half hence Hippopotamus Holm horses Horsey Bridge inhabitants joined the Fleet July large perch leeward Long Robin Lord Orford Lord Sandwich Lordship March River mile morning mouth nine o'clock o'clock a.m. obliged Old Nene ordered the Fleet Orford Bay Ouse Outwell passage passed Peterboro Peterborough Bridge pleasant post chaise Pristis race Ramsey Meer returned rising ground river Nene river Ouse rowed sailed Salters Lode Sandwich Point south-west southern shore Spalding Standground Sluice steered Stilton Straits of Martin Swallow tacks took towed town trimmers Turk Turk's Island Upwell vessels village voyage weeds western shore Whittlesey Meer wind yacht Yaxley
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الصفحة 50 - Hsec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem Impulit in latus ; ac venti velut agmine facto, Qua data porta, ruunt, et terras turbine perflant. Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis Una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus : Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum.
الصفحة 19 - is equally remarkable for the ugliness of the inhabitants as for the handsomeness of the church— a disagreeable, sallow complexion, broad flat nose, and wide mouth predominating amongst them. They are a mixture from a Dutch colony which we were informed settled here at the time of the Revolution.
الصفحة 13 - Bridge, where we stopped, and went on shore to see a Roman Camp, adjoining to the Road leading from Horsey Bridge to Whittlesey. Whatever it may formerly have been, nothing more is to be seen than a bank or mound of Earth in a square form, rising about eight or nine feet above the level ground about it, and, like that covered with grass.
الصفحة 66 - a fenman on the eastern bank of the river demanded fourpence for hauling on the bank ; but as he confessed it was not above a fortnight since this new tax was levied, and could give us no good reason for this novel demand, we refused to comply. He threatened to detain the horse...
الصفحة 26 - Whittlesey Meer is somewhat more than two miles from the points we sailed between. The water rolls with great force, and in high winds the waves swell five or six feet high, being very much exposed by the lowness of the neighbouring grounds which afford no defence against them.
الصفحة 67 - Revolution." Lord Orford says : " Many very old women in Upwell, Outwell, and March ; the sex in general extremely ugly.
الصفحة 83 - Keach, about a mile west of the town, from whence we had a fine view of the west side of Peterborough Cathedral.