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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    were thrown by the shock into the sea, and )were no more seen. A more remarkable suc- • cession of calamities on the same spot has never 1 occurred in the history of these islands; and the 1 melancholy catastrophe of the wreck of the '.Superb only too accurately confirms the state- iments made as to the dangers which render , these islands so diflScult of approach whether by I friend or foe. ‘ The forms assumed by the rocks on the coast, > and the detached masses in the sea surrounding these islands, are in some instances apparently the result of weathering, and in others of the ! mechanical action of the waves. It is incon- ceivable that some of the wild-looking forms ' which stand in grisly majesty out of the waters, wei'e of their present shape when first produced. I The action of the elements, and the attacking I force of the waves, have sculptured them as ■ with nature’s own hand into their fantastic shapes. The finest example of wild scenery, 'produced by such causes operating upon the .naturally bold and uncouth figure of the pri- : mary rocks, is to be found at one extremity of the beautiful bay called Moulin Huet, in Guernsey. These rocks are shown in the frontispiece to this work, in one of their most picturesque aspects. The summit of the tall