 | Great Britain. Hydrographic Department, Martin White - 1835 - 354 pagine
...and chalky appearance continuing as far as Old Harry, where it again abruptly declines. Throughout Christchurch Bay the land is generally low, and still...dark-coloured ground behind it. From the Needles towards St. Catherine Point, the land continues gradually to rise, Dunnose being 792 feet above the level of the... | |
 | John Walker (geographer to the East India company.) - 1844 - 210 pagine
...and chalky appearance continuing as far as Old Harry, where it again abruptly declines. Throughout Christchurch Bay the land is generally low, and still...chalk becomes very remarkable when contrasted by the dark coloured ground behind it. From the Needles towards St. Catherine's Point, the land continues... | |
 | John Walker (geographer to the East India company.) - 1858 - 260 pagine
...and the ebb 2 hours later than at Spithead, and runs 6 hours each way. The NKEDI.ES. — Throughout Christchurch bay the land is generally low, and still...From thence the western end of the Isle of Wight, the Needles cliff, rises perpendicularly, and being composed wholly of chalk, becomes very remarkable when... | |
 | Admiralty hydrogr. dept - 1863 - 288 pagine
...1863: Needles and Solent Channels, 21° 20' ; Spithead, 21° 10' West. NEEDLES CHANNEL — Throughout Christchurch bay the land is generally low, and still...the vicinity of Hurst castle, the base of 'which is but little elevated above the level of high water. The Needles cliffs, at the west extreme of the Isle... | |
 | D. Mackintosh - 1869 - 466 pagine
...EROSION. 85 Glastonbury there are several very distinctly-marked terraces on the face of an escarpment, the base of which is very little elevated above the level of the sea. They are terraces of erosion, and could never have answered any human purpose. They are slightly waved,... | |
 | Admiralty hydrogr. dept - 1869 - 294 pagine
...- 20° 35' W. NEEDLES CHANNEL. — Throughout Christchurch bay the land is low, but more especially so in the vicinity of Hurst castle, the base of which is but little elevated above the level of high water. The Needles cliffs, at the west extreme of the Isle... | |
 | United States. Hydrographic Office - 1920 - 508 pagine
...Channel — Aspect — General remarks. — Throughout Christchurch Bay the land is low and especially so in the vicinity of Hurst Castle, the base of which is but little above the level of high water. The white chalk cliffs at the Needles, the western extremity... | |
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Head, the shore is principally cliff, and composed for the most part of chalk, its elevation and chalky appearance continuing as far as Old Harry, where it again abruptly declines. Throughout Christchurch Bay the land is generally low, and still more... 