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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    transcript of the scene, being accurately copied from a photograph. The outline of this bay is beautifully curved, and nearly in the centre rises Fort Grey, a fortification of considerable strength and of local importance. A number of small fishing-boats are generally seen shel- tered in this bay. At its south-western boun- daiy is the little barren-looking island, called Lihou. Access to this island can, be had at low water over a rough stony path; but when the tide is in, this path is covered, and a powerful eurrent sets through the channel. The ruins of an ancient priory, represented in the following cut, exist on this wild spot, and are, in parts, in a tolerable state of preservation. There is also a dwelling-house upon the island; its most numerous inhabitants are, however, the rab- bits. The rocks are wild and irregular in their character; they are much exposed to the wes- terly gales and seas. The singular natural baths before alluded to are to be found, by those who do not mind scrambling, on the south side of this island; but to suppose that these excavations were ever really used as baths by the nuns, would imply a much greater facility in climbing over rough and slippery rocks in those days than is enjoyed by women in our own. Still proceeding with his tour round the