Report and Transactions, Volume 4Guernsey Star and Gazette Company, 1905 - Guernsey |
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Page 330 - DOES the road wind up-hill all the way ? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day ? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place ? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn.
Page 28 - Yet I long could overlook Thy bright coronet and thee, And thy arch and wily ways, And thy store of other praise. Blithe of heart, from week to week Thou dost play at...
Page 319 - ... perfect insects. On October 1st the last specimen emerged from the chrysalis. These observations are most interesting and valuable. In Newman's British Butterflies it is stated that " The last disclosed females of this species lay their eggs on the twigs of the Bladder Senna ( Colutea arborescent), but, like those of several, and perhaps all, the British species of this family, they do not hatch until the following summer, at which season the young pods of the Senna are sufficiently advanced...
Page 305 - Supply," showing how the ancient forests and vegetation which now formed coal grew on the actual sites of the present deposits, so that the physical aspects of our country must have vastly altered...
Page 262 - Guernzey, is the large capaciousnesse of the harbour,2 and the flourishing beauty of the castle ; I say the castle, as it may so be called by way of eminency, that in the Vale, and those poorer trifles all along the coasts, not any way deserving to be spoken of. Situate it is upon a little islet just opposite unto Pierport, or the town of St. Peter on the sea, to which and to the peere there it is a good assurance, and takes up the whole circuit of that islet whereupon it standeth. At the first,...
Page 27 - St. (xudule's, since which time (it is said) serious epidemics have been arrested, and many other " miracles " performed through their agency. The appearance of this terrible " blood portent " seems to have generally been associated with some act of desecration on the part of the unfortunate Jews, who were made to confess their guilt under inquisitorial torture. About the year 1600 twenty Jews were tortured and burnt at Judenburg, in Styria, and in 1620 another 28 met with a similarly awful fate,...
Page 351 - The difference between this phrase, " was lately occupied by his French enemies," and that in the former letters of the 1st February, " is held by the French," is further proof that the reconquest of the island had taken place in the interval, and confirms the entries just quoted from the Accounts of de Weston and de Ferrers. Thomas de Ferrers returned to the...
Page 348 - Michaelmas next for the arrears of his fenn of the islands .... as he has besought the king to cause allowance to be made to him in his ferm .... and certain of the islands are occupied by the king's alien enemies who have invaded them, and Thomas cannot receive the ferm for that cause ; and the king wishes to deal favourably with him because he is staying in his service in parts beyond the sea and cannot depart to account for what he has lost."t Also in the Accounts of Walter de Weston, Lieutenant...
Page 67 - 75 mm. Q adult very active, constructing ovisac at period of gestation ; mealy, but without marginal appendages ; segmentation distinct ; form rather short, ovate, anal extremity emarginate. Anal lobes indicated by a single hair. Anal ring of six long hairs, intervening spaces with irregular ovate glands. Dermis thickly set with circular spinnerets, forming broad bands on the abdominal segments ; there are also numerous short hairs, but these are much fewer in number than the spinnerets. Antennae...
Page 343 - Tresorier sout accordez coment qui serra fait a dit Monsieur Thomas trente tonneaulx de pomadre,| cinquante quintals de fer, deux quintals d'acier pour le meisme garniture ; et pur ceo que Guillaume Pein...