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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    and thirty feet deep, one hundred and ninety- five feet of which is bored through solid rock; a dozen men can raise the water into cisterns by means of a forcing-pump, and they can thus bring up about six thousand gallons per day. The smaller fortress, Elizabeth Castle, forming a very picturesque object, outside the harbour, is placed upon a rocky island of about a mile in circumference. It Avas commenced in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It may be explored at ebb of tide on foot, but when the tide fiows the path is covered; and immediately before this is the case, a bell rings in the castle, warning the visitor to depart before it is too late. On the summit of a rock, near the castle, the rude remains of a hermitage are descried, the com- fortless abode of the saint Avhose name has been conveyed to posterity by the town of St. Heliers. This town contrasts forcibly with the quiet little tOAvn of St. Peter Port, in Guernsey. It resembles in many respects our English water- ing places, differing, however, in the character of its inhabitants, and slightly in their costume, in both of which points they assimilate to their neighbours of the opposite coast of France. St. Heliers is, in fact, the abode of a consider- able number of French as AveU as of English