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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    town of St. Heliers, and proceeding in a south- • easterly direction, an elevated mound, called 1 Prince’s Tower, or La Hougue Bie, is genei’ally visited. This is the chief elevation of Jersey,, and commands a most extensive and pleasing;; prospect. The tower stands upon an artificial I i mound, surrounded with trees, and is a little; j removed from the way-side. It is visible at a.' great distance, and is much resorted to by tourists: for the panoramic view obtained from its summit. The mound is said to have been raised to the memory of her husband by the lady of a, Norman knight, who had been treacherously murdered near this place; a ehapel was erected . on the summit of the mound, by one of the Deans of Jersey, before the Deformation ; and the present tower was built by Philip d’Au- vergne, Prince de Bouillon, a native of Jersey, and admiral in the British navy. At a little distance from La Hougue Bie is the pretty Bay of Grouville, the northern boun- dary of which is formed by the rock on which the celebrated castle of Mont Orgueil is built. This venerable ruin is beautifully situated on a rocky headland ; its towers are still in many places little affected by the progress of decay, and are clothed with a most luxuriant growth of ivy. Formerly this fortress was a place of some consequence. Charles the Second inha-