Stanfield's Coast scenery - a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France (1847) (14596588297)

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Title: Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France

Year: 1847 (1840s)

Authors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867

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Publisher: London : Smith, Elder and Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ST. MALO. This town, formerly called Haute-Bretagne, with a sea-port, a castlewhich served it for a citadel, and several other forts, is at the presenttime the chief place of the arrondissement and canton of the departmentof Ille and Vilaine. It is forty leagues north of Nantes, and eighty-threeleagues north-west of Paris. It was a place of no importance until thetime of Anne of Bretagne, who transferred to it the bishopric of Aleth, orGuidalet, and gave it the name of St. Malo, or Maelon, which was thatof its patron and first bishop. It is not large, the land on which it is built being limited; but it is abusy trading place, and thickly populated in proportion to its extent; itcontains from 12,000 to 14,000 inhabitants. It is built on a rock, orsmall island, formerly called the Isle of Aaron, which is connected withthe mainland by a causeway. This island is protected on the northerncoast with rocks, by means of which the fortifications of St. Malo underthis part of the enclosure are

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