Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902)
e path and staircase whichwinds among cliffs and under mossy boulders, and to my greatsurprise found myself on the brink of great cliffs of open sea,with white surf dashing far below at their base. I pushed onby a footjiath along the harbor side of the promontory, pastthe first strange castle, —… … zigzag to the ruined tower and walls on the highest peak ofthis much-peaked headland. Here were vastly fine seawardcliffs, where, under a big Pine, I lunched off stuff from mypockets, while far below, and often hidden by Pines, two boatsslowly dragged nets close to the rocks, and in the far…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-103-373.webp)
