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Updated: May 13, 2025
Then came a moment's silence and another musket shot rang out, followed by a chorus of shouts and cries. Simultaneously the yards swung round into position, the sails caught the breeze once more, and the vessel darted away on a course which would take her past Bembridge Point out to the English Channel.
Eustace forgot the other fellow's sister, her limpid eyes, her open-worked stockings, her panoply of chiffons and of charms. He had heard his own name. Bang went the door on the rest of the world, shutting out even feminine humanity. Self-consciousness held him listening. His mother said: "Dear Eustace! What do you think of him, Mr. Bembridge? Is he really clever?
He also took an active share in the discussions relative to the restoration of Powell and Bembridge to their offices by Mr.
In front, at the foot of the hill, are the rich levels, with the sinuous river Yar slowly winding towards the harbour, with the full broad front of Bembridge Down interrupting the marine view, which is again presented on the right from the village of Sandown to the extremity of Shanklin. At the foot of Brading Hill the road divides itself into two branches.
Through it all the poor Bembridge Belle battled bravely, holding her own as long as she could keep her head above the boisterous billows; but, when the tide rose yet higher, and the waters flowed through her fore and aft, her upper deck became submerged, the sea made a clean breach over her, the waves took her in their rough hands and shook her so that she trembled, her hull working to and fro in the shingle, the blustering billows dashed against her, and she began to break up.
BRITISH. Bembridge fluvio-marine strata. Helen's series. FOREIGN. Gypsum of Montmartre, fresh-water with Palaeotherium. BRITISH. Bracklesham beds and Bagshot sands. FOREIGN. Calcaire grossier, miliolitic limestone. Nummulitic formation of Europe, Asia, etc. BRITISH. London Clay proper. FOREIGN. Argile de Londres, near Dunkirk. BRITISH. Upper white chalk, with flints.
They fill a larger space in the Paris Basin between the Seine and the Loire, and constitute also part of the northern limits of the area of the Netherlands which are shaded in the map. A.1: Bembridge series, Isle of Wight: Gypseous series of Montmartre. A.2: Osborne or St. Helen's series, Isle of Wight: Calcaire siliceux, or Travertin Inferieur.
The same genus has also been found in the Upper Eocene marls of Hordwell Cliff, Hampshire, just below the level of the Bembridge Limestone, and therefore a formation older than the Gypsum of Paris.
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