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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight, by George Brannon This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: 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. Author: George Brannon Release Date: July 24, 2005 [eBook #16356] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRANNON'S PICTURE OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT*** E-text prepared by richyfourtytwo, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16356-h.htm or 16356-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/5/16356/16356-h/16356-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/5/16356/16356-h.zip) BRANNON'S PICTURE OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT; Or 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. Printed and Published by George Brannon, Wootton, Isle of Wight [Illustration: The Pulpit Rock, Bonchurch, looking towards Ventnor.] [Illustration: NORRIS, I.W.] EXPLANATION. If nearly FORTY YEARS' RESIDENCE in the Isle of Wight may be allowed in some degree to qualify an ARTIST for the office of Guide, the Author has a fair claim to public patronage,--for few could have had better opportunity of acquiring local information. He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous,--but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes. It affords him, _at first glance_, an INDEX of what ought to be seen, and _how best seen in the shortest time_, in every place to
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