Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Adventures of Dick Trevanion: A Story Of Eighteen Hundred And Four

0/5 ( ratings)

The village of Polkerran lies snugly in a hollow between cliffs facing the Atlantic, at the head of a little bay that forms a natural harbour. The grey stone cottages rise from the sea-level in tiers, as in an amphitheatre, huddled together, with the narrowest and most tortuous of lanes between them. Through the midst a stream flows from the high ground behind, in summer a mere brook, in winter a swollen torrent that colours the sea far out with the soil it carries down. The bay is shaped like a horseshoe; at low tide its mouth is closed by a reef except at the northern end, where there is always a narrow fairway between the reef and the sharp point of land known as the Beal. Northward of this is another little inlet called Trevanion Bay, whence the coast winds north-east, a line of rugged, precipitous, and overhanging cliffs, unbroken until you come to St. Cuby's Cove, where they reach a height of three hundred feet, and bulge out over the sea like a penthouse roof. One August evening, in the year 1804, a wide tubby boat lay in twelve feet of water, just outside the line of breakers beneath the cliffs, about a mile and a half from the village. The sun had been down some two hours, but there was enough of twilight to show to any one out at sea-the boat being invisible from the land-that it contained two lads, one a tall, slight, but muscular youth of seventeen or thereabouts, the other a thicker, sturdier boy, who looked older, but was, in fact, a year or more younger than his companion.

Language: English

Pages: 166

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1911

ISBN 13: 9781490331614

The Adventures of Dick Trevanion: A Story Of Eighteen Hundred And Four

0/5 ( ratings)

The village of Polkerran lies snugly in a hollow between cliffs facing the Atlantic, at the head of a little bay that forms a natural harbour. The grey stone cottages rise from the sea-level in tiers, as in an amphitheatre, huddled together, with the narrowest and most tortuous of lanes between them. Through the midst a stream flows from the high ground behind, in summer a mere brook, in winter a swollen torrent that colours the sea far out with the soil it carries down. The bay is shaped like a horseshoe; at low tide its mouth is closed by a reef except at the northern end, where there is always a narrow fairway between the reef and the sharp point of land known as the Beal. Northward of this is another little inlet called Trevanion Bay, whence the coast winds north-east, a line of rugged, precipitous, and overhanging cliffs, unbroken until you come to St. Cuby's Cove, where they reach a height of three hundred feet, and bulge out over the sea like a penthouse roof. One August evening, in the year 1804, a wide tubby boat lay in twelve feet of water, just outside the line of breakers beneath the cliffs, about a mile and a half from the village. The sun had been down some two hours, but there was enough of twilight to show to any one out at sea-the boat being invisible from the land-that it contained two lads, one a tall, slight, but muscular youth of seventeen or thereabouts, the other a thicker, sturdier boy, who looked older, but was, in fact, a year or more younger than his companion.

Language: English

Pages: 166

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1911

ISBN 13: 9781490331614

More books from Herbert Strang

The Old Man of the Mountain

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Tom Willoughby's Scouts A Story of the War in German East Africa

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo

4.4/5 ( ratings)

King of the Air; Or, to Morocco on an Airship

Humphrey Bold

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Flying Boat

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Great Book for Girls: Four Merry Maids

Kobo

The Great Book For Girls: Golden Days

The Heir of a Hundred Kings

King of the Air; Or, to Morocco on an Airship

King of the Air: Or to Morocco on an Airship (Classic Reprint)

Carry On!: A Story of the Fight for Bagdad

Jack Hardy: A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of Napoleon

In Clive's Command

In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India

Round the World in Seven Days

Carry On!

One of Clive's Heroes

Jack Hardy

Rate this book!

Write a review?