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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    iiclc out of the waters, offering defiance to tlie mtrance of man; and although here and there I tiny shore is formed in some inlet, the greater oart of the coast has a wall-like character, reii- lering it formidable to any who might attempt 0 force an entrance into it. The ordinary means )f access are through a tunnel driven through a ■ock, or by climbing by the assistance of ropes ind steps cut in the face of the cliff. The iiterior of the island presents a charming con- rast to the forbidding exterior. Its surface is Droken into several romantic valleys watered ; )y tributary brooks, diversified with wood, and 1 n many parts under extensive cultivation. The 1 ransition from the outside to the luxuriant interior of this beautiful island, leaves an im- |)ression on the mind which cannot soon be effaced. Sark is the most beautiful island of ;he whole group, and perhaps of any attached ,0 the British crown; but until of late years t has been seldom visited, and its scenery is out little known beyond the group of islands )f which it forms one. At a short distance from Sark, and separated Tom it by a narrow strait, through which the :ide courses furiously, is the remarkable island : called LTle des Marchands, or Brechou. Like !5ark, from which the sea seems to have torn t asunder, Brechou stands from the waters