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BELLASIS, George Hutchins (1778-1822)
The Friar Rock in Friar's Valley.

Used with the assistance and permission of Professor Barry Weaver, University of Oklahoma.

The Friar Rock in Friar's Valley.

View No. V.

Entering Friar's Valley from the east, the central object is an immense pile of rocks rising perpendicularly eight hundred feet above the level of the sea. On the right is seen a fine opening to the Atlantic Ocean; and on the left, another, in the centre of which appears a very curious and interesting object composed of five rocks, firmly cemented by Nature, affording a fanciful resemblance of a Friar in the habit of his Order, from whence the valley takes its name. Planters' houses, verdant and naked mountains, diversify the scene, and render the whole extremely picturesque and sublime.

[Extract from Bellasis, George Hutchins. Views of St Helena. London: John Tyler, 1815.]

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