Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion of a horseman on its slippery tract, or any pedestrian on the apex of this one-sided pyra- mid, who, whilst leaning from the abyss on the one side, seems borne up by the stormy wind from the other. It is not surprising that some fatal aecidents should have occurred, especially to persons crossing over in a state of inebriety —indeed, since the alteration, an old man, laden with bundles of straw, was carried over by the wind, and died the following day, in conse- quence of the injuries he sustained. Another person, a miner, subject to attacks of delirium tremens^ when crossing the Coupee, was fre- quently attacked with violent paroxysms of terror, and with difficulty prevented by his t companions from falling over. The present iroad, in some parts, is still without wall or ! protection of any kind on either side, and the ; rocks, being of micaceous schist, rapidly decom- posing by the action of air and water, large (masses hang, apparently loose, on the verge rof the precipice, ready to be launehed into the ; abyss below, or detached piece by piece, and ^carried away by the fury of the elements. “ The objects worthy of notice on the shore (are the strata—the caves—the arch—the tunnel ■rock and broken Creux, near the Pointe— '.zoophytes—and some rare marine plants, well ideserving the botanist^s attention. ‘ The stra-