Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of a comparatively recent date. Tradition and fable, and often pure invention, fill up the long interval antecedent to the date of truthful his- tory. It is owing perhaps to their insular position, and proximity to the French coast, combined to the difficulties which until late years attended the passage of travellers to the islands, that so much ignorance prevails as to their history in the parent country. The Channel Islands, in many respects highly deserving of the notice of the naturalist and traveller, nor less of the student of history and antiquity, have been most singularly neglected. In reference to this it has been said, that less is known of the Channel Islands than of any other colony or dependency of the British crown of equal size and importance. It has even been asserted that more is actually known, and more accurate information is to be gathered from authentic sources, respecting the smallest of the colonies which lie in the Atlantic or Indian Oceans, than respecting Jersey or Guernsey, or the other islands of this group; and this appears the more extra- ordinary when we consider that there are cer- tain points of interest attached to the Channel Islands peculiarly their own, and which essen- tially distinguish them from the other colonies and dependencies of Great Britain. Among