 | Caesar Otway - Ireland - 1827 - 462 pages
...Sugar-loaf mountain, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation, as if it were chrystallized sugar ; directly under my feet was the inner harbour...castle, another crowned with a modern battery — here a Martello tower, there the ruins of a fishing palace ;* and to finish the setting of this rich jewel,... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...Sugar-loaf mountain, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation, as if it were chrystallized sugar; directly under my feet was the inner harbour...with an ancient castle, another crowned with a modern battery—here a Martello tower, there the ruins of a fishing palace ;* and to finish the setting of... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1839 - 414 pages
...nearer still, facing the north, the sugar-loaf mountain, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation, as if it were crystallized sugar; directly...castle, another crowned with a modern battery — here a martello tower, there the ruins of a fishing-palace ; * and to finish the setting of this rich jewel,... | |
 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1866 - 218 pages
...800 feet ! Nearer still, facing the north, the Sugar Loaf, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation as if it were crystallized sugar ; directly...my feet was the inner harbour of Bantry, protected land divided from the outer bay by the green island pf Whiddy ; and up and down on that placid water... | |
 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1867 - 206 pages
...800 feet ! Nearer still, facing the north, the Sugar Loaf, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation as if it were crystallized sugar ; directly...ancient castle, another crowned with a modern battery ; and to finish the setting of this rich jewel, the woods, hills, and mansion of Lord Bantry, and his... | |
 | sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1874 - 206 pages
...800 feet ! Nearer still, facing the north, the Sugar Loaf, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation as if it were crystallized sugar ; directly...ancient castle, another crowned with a modern battery ; and to finish the setting of this rich jewel, the woods, hills, and mansion of Lord Bantry, and his... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1835 - 440 pages
...Sugarloal mountain, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation, as ¡fit were ehrystalized sugar; directly under my feet was the inner harbour...crested with an ancient castle, another crowned with • Sketches in the North and South by CO, a work that ought to be in the hand» of every traveller... | |
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Adrigoll, in a perpendicular silver column of 800 feet! — nearer still, facing the north, the sugar-loaf mountain, almost as white in its silicious quartzose formation, as if it were crystallized sugar; directly under my feet was the inner harbour of... 