 | 1836 - 808 pages
...popularly called VitzSttphen't Stride. The adventurers are supposed to have first occupied the nected with the esplanade by a mound of earth. This bastion...foundations of a house, which is popularly called Fitz-Slephen's Tent. The neck, which joins the greater promontory with the main-land, is also defended... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1846 - 322 pages
...last of these rocks, across which he is said to have sprung, is now popularly called Fitz Stephen's Stride. The adventurers are supposed to have first...foundations of a house, which is popularly called Fitz Stephen's Tent. The neck, which joins the greater promontory with the main-land, is also defended... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 516 pages
...there from falling over. On turning up the soil, they discovered, about one foot below the surface, the remains of fires at regular intervals on the edge of the precipices. These were supposed to be the watch-fires of the videttes which were stationed round the encampment.... | |
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About five years before my visit, some labourers were throwing up a low ledge round the cliffs to prevent the sheep which graze there from falling over. On turning up the soil, they discovered, about one foot below the surface, the remains of fires at... 