The Wonders of Nature and Art, Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World: Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants : Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern TravellersJ. Walker, 1803 |
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Seite 112 - The principal buildings withing the walls are the church, the white Tower, the offices of ordnance, of the mint, of the keepers of the records, the jewel office, the horfearmory, the grand ftore-houfe, the new or fmall armory, handfome houfes for the chief officers refiding in the Tower, with many other houfes for the meaner officers, and barracks for foldiers on duty, befides prifons for ftate-delinquents, which are commonly the warders houfes.
Seite 8 - ... in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has been exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance ; and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Seite 138 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our LORD 1666, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant Religion, and old English Liberty, and introducing Popery and Slavery.
Seite 138 - Behind the king, stands his brother the Duke of York, with a garland in one hand to crown the rising city, and a sword in the other for her defence.
Seite 103 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Seite 6 - ... the path leads beneath three natural arches to another vast concavity, termed Great Tom of Lincoln from its resemblance to a bell. Here, under the influence of a strong light, the arrangements of the rock, the spiracles in the roof, and the flowing stream, produce a striking scene. From this point the vault gradually descends, the passage contracts, and at length leaves only room sufficient for the stream. The entire length of this great excavation is 2250 feet, and its depth from the surface...
Seite 119 - ... Henry V. and Henry IV. King Edward III. with a venerable beard, in a suit of plain bright armour, with two crowns on his sword, alluding to his having been crowned king both of England and France. King Edward I. dressed in a very curious suit of gilt armour, and in shoes of mail, with a battle-axe in his hand. And William the Conqueror, the first in the line, though the last shown, in a suit of plain armour. The other principal curiosities in this room are a large tilting-lance of Charles Brandon,...
Seite 4 - ... features of the natural scenery, impresses the mind with an indescribable emotion of awe. After proceeding about ninety feet, the roof becomes lower, and a gentle descent conducts, by a detached rock, to the interior entrance, where the blaze of the day wholly disappears, and all further researches must be pursued by torch-light. The passage now becomes extremely confined, and the visitor is obliged to proceed about twenty yards in a stooping posture : but on his arrival at a spacious opening...
Seite 6 - ... leaves no more room than is sufficient for the passage of the stream, which continues to flow through a subterraneous channel. The entire length of this wonderful cavern is two thousand, two hundred and fifty feet, and its depth, from the surface of the mountain, about sis hundred and twenty.
Seite 122 - II., whose garniture is gold, enamelled with white. The curtana, or sword of mercy, the blade of which is thirty-two inches long, and nearly two broad, without a point, carried before the king at his coronation, between the two swords of justice. The golden spurs, and the armillas, or bracelets for the wrists, which, though very antique, are worn at the coronation. The ampulla, or eagle of gold, which is finely engraved, and holds the holy oil the kings and queens of England are anointed with ; and...