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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to Weymouth with John Cowper Powys [ ⇒
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THE CHESIL BANK(The photograph is a photo of a photograph on the walls of Cove House Inn... The two large cylindrical objects in the foreground are not identified.) The gigantic force of the Atlantic waves increased by the very heavy ground-swell during storms causes the waves to break on the Bank with great violence. "In 1824 an ordnance sloop was, not lifted clean over the beach from the West Bay into the Roads, as the story goes, but lifted high enough on the Bank to make it possible by a little channeling to get her into the water on the other side, and thus 'pierce' the isthmus... Wrecks innumerable took place here before steam vessels were introduced. Indeed, they are by no means infrequent now, but formerly 'Deadman's Bay' had a terrible name." Dorset by Frank Heath, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. |
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