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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    THI: ALTARS, SARK. cuboidal heaps of rock, standing at some little distance apart from each other, and separated I by the tide. On approaching them more nearly, I the singularity of their structure becomes evi- i dent. Their planes of stratification are almost horizontal, and are so distinctly marked, that the rocks appear as if formed of masses of i and contemplated the extraordinary appearance of this spot. At a little distance in front were four masses of rock, so regular in their outline and so just in their proportions, that it requmed some abstraction of mind to realize the fact that they were not of artificial origin. These are called the Altars—Les Autelets. They are