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... trees , -some pines , and many green tufts like laurels . The town of Falmouth , little , old , and ugly , was seen on our left , and another assemblage of little old houses on our right , ( Flushing ) ; Pendennis Castle behind us , on ...
... trees , -some pines , and many green tufts like laurels . The town of Falmouth , little , old , and ugly , was seen on our left , and another assemblage of little old houses on our right , ( Flushing ) ; Pendennis Castle behind us , on ...
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... trees . No new houses to be seen ; very few young trees ; all is old , and mouldering into picturesque forms and colours . The trees are uniformly covered 8 CORNWALL CLIMATE - PLANTS . with moss , even CORNWALL - CLIMATE - PLANTS 7.
... trees . No new houses to be seen ; very few young trees ; all is old , and mouldering into picturesque forms and colours . The trees are uniformly covered 8 CORNWALL CLIMATE - PLANTS . with moss , even CORNWALL - CLIMATE - PLANTS 7.
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... trees and shrubs , advances along the precipitous heights , ( B ) where the sight , unchecked by any trees , and from an elevation of two or three hun- dred feet , embraces at once the ocean on the right ; in front , on the other side ...
... trees and shrubs , advances along the precipitous heights , ( B ) where the sight , unchecked by any trees , and from an elevation of two or three hun- dred feet , embraces at once the ocean on the right ; in front , on the other side ...
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... tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Portugal laurel we are told ) ; then such draperies of ivy , in ample folds over the rocks and trees ; such pines with moss of all colours , along the trunk and branches ; and on the ...
... tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Portugal laurel we are told ) ; then such draperies of ivy , in ample folds over the rocks and trees ; such pines with moss of all colours , along the trunk and branches ; and on the ...
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... trees , and green fields . This ridge is intersected by a deep gap , near which a confused heap of roofs , towers , and steeples , and smoke , mark the town ; dirty sub- urbs succeeded to this view ; then a bridge over a mean and muddy ...
... trees , and green fields . This ridge is intersected by a deep gap , near which a confused heap of roofs , towers , and steeples , and smoke , mark the town ; dirty sub- urbs succeeded to this view ; then a bridge over a mean and muddy ...
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