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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    many parts of tliG Channel Islands^ instead of the Shetland Isles, it could not have been more correctly descriptive of their features:—“ Prom this point of rock, as we cast our eyes to the north, an extensive view of the country is ex- hibited; yet nothing is to be observed but the most frequent constituents of Shetland scenery —islet% holms, creeks, precipices, and a long line of rugged coast.' Of each and the whole of these varieties of coast indentation which have been distinguished by the Shetlanders, examples may be found in various parts of these islands. That a powerful tidal current scours the shores of these islands of the north,—one of them the Ultima Thule of Agricola, needs scarcely to be said, when their position is remembered; and that, though in a somewhat less degree, a similarly, powerful stream sweeps around the Channel Islands, it remains for us in another place to show. We have entered at some length into this subject, because we are anxious to give to any one who may visit these islands a precise clue to their physical peculiarities, and to render their scenery not merely attractive but instructive also. The beautiful little bay situated at a short distance from the town of St. Peter Port, in Guernsey, called FermainBay, is an exact type of the Shetland Voe. The line of the water’s