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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    ceivcd to be a miraculous interposition to point out the divinely selected site. Sceptical per- sons, however, assert that the removal was effected by human hands, under the direction of the priest, who had an objection to the eastern side of the bay. The bay is a semicircular basin, but its regularity of outline is broken on the eastern side by a projecting mass of rocks, by which a second creek is made, forming a smaller bay. On the land side, high rocky eminences surround and hem it in. The cliffs on the eastern and northern side are full of vertical fissures, intersected by horizontal ones, so as to divide the rock into cuboidal masses, giving rise to an appearance resembling ma- sonry. It has been elsewhere remarked, that this sort of cleavage is very commonly met with in granitic rocks; and these belong to that series. Near the eastern point of this bay there are quarries, in which are raised good masses of compact syenite for building purposes. The whole of these bays in each of the islands form an interesting study to the naturalist. Their formation and scenic peculiarities are often of a remarkable character, and it is to be regretted that so small a degree of scien- tific attention has been bestowed upon them. When we regard them, as unquestionably many of them must be regarded, as the results of the