Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight - The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. by George Brannon
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the first of these sources, he is very liable to mis-statement, by
investing everything in a new dress to conceal his piracies; and the latter source leaves him open to imposition--for much of his matter will be sheer gossip, partial statements, or unfounded tradition, which a long experience only could detect, and place in a proper light. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.--GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. PAGE Its Peculiar Advantages for a Summer's Excursion, 9 Climate, Situation, and Extent, 15 Geology, Agriculture, and Zoology, 18 Eminent Natives, and Outline of the Local History, 21 CHAPTER II.--THE THREE PRINCIPAL TOWNS, AND THEIR ENVIRONS. Carisbrooke Castle and Village, 25 Newport and its Environs, 29 East and West Cowes, and their Environs, 34 Objects on the road between Cowes and Ryde, 43 Ryde and its Environs, 45 St. Helen's, Bembridge, Sandown, Brading, &c., 52 CHAPTER III--THE SOUTH-EASTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND, _Distinguished for its Romantic Scenery._ |
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