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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    affords an endless variety of beautiful scenery. Its projecting rampart of rocks contracts and defends the entrance of this bay, which is much more exposed to the fury of the Atlantic than the former. The spot from whence the photo- i graph of those rocks was taken forms a kind of watch post, and contains one or two rusty and dismounted cannon. The cliffs forming the sides of this bay are in many places quite per- pendicular, and as smooth as a wall; in others, they actually appear as if nodding to their fall. We found several places in which a mixture of' iron with the other constituents of the rock wasf hastening its destruction. No term can better^ express the state of the cliffs forming the curve ; of the bay than that of indentation. The whole , coast appears bitten out. Ledges of uneven ! rock project into the waters at intervals of a few 'j yards, leaving little creeks and narrow passages ] of great intricacy. When the tide is rising, ! and the pedestrian’s access to a smoother part - of the bay is intercepted by the waters sur-| rounding the seaward edges of these masses of/, rock, escape is difficult, and in some places:^ might be impossible. Caves of various kinds J are also seen on this part of the coast, and one | in particular demands our more particular con- sideration. The water in the bay contains many sunken and exposed rocks.