purposes of defence. By an order in council in 1803, one-third
of this impost was reserved for war purposes. At this time, the
produce amounted only to about £5,000. In 1823, when the
first steamer made its appearance in Jersey, it amounted to
£7,487; and, in 1843, to £16,500. It now approaches £18,000
The harbour dues yield a large and increasing revenue.
There is also a crown revenue, fluctuating with the price of
wheat, and, at the present time (1862), amounting to £2,200.
This is independent of a valuable crown property on the east
side of the island, near St. Catherine's Bay, at present yielding
an income of £1,200.
The public debt of Jersey, incurred in the construction of the
harbour and other works, is about £150,000 sterling. Of this,
about one-third is called the harbour debt. There is also a
debt of the Assembly of the governor, bailiff, and jurats,
amounting to £15,067. No special sinking fund exists; but
the general revenue is in excess of the expenditure.
A.
Abbey, ancient, in Chaussey Islands,
Acalephæ of the Channel Islands, 239.
Actinolite, abundance of in Sark, 264.
Acts of Parliament, how they affect the
Channel Islands, 532.
Administration of justice in the Channel
islands at an early period, 356.
Advocates, number of, practising in the
islands. 531.
Advowsons in the islands belong to the
Crown, 542.
Etius (Roman consul), his treatment
of the Britons, 315.
Agricultural Society of Jersey, and of
Guernsey, 556.
Agriculture of the Channel Islands,
Alani, the migrations of this tribe, 316.
Alder, Mr. J., his assistance acknow-
ledged, 214, 218, 219.
Alderney, high water at, 9; general ac-
count of, 19; notice of the cliffs of,
19, 20, 27; parish church, 29; cli-
mate, 155; remarkable insects, 225;
geology of, 266; its sand-stone com-
pared with the Jersey conglomerates,
274; raised beach in, 280; antiqui-
ties of, 413; Roman remains in, 429;
derivation of its name, 452; soil of,
464; manure in, 468; size of farms
in, 476; cows of, 480; independent
legal existence of, 519; its governing
body, 521; account of its law court,
536; its militia, 553; money, 563;
measures, 564.
Algæ, or sea-weeds of the Channel
Islands, 191.
Aloes, flowering, at Valnor, Guernsey,
491; abundance of, in the islands,
500.
Altars, identity of cromlechs with, 412.
American War, attempt on Jersey by
the French during the, 390; priva-
teering carried on then from the
Channel Islands, 400.
Amirauté, the Court so called, 534.
Amphipodous crustaceans of the Chan-
nel Islands, 234.
Analysis of soils, 461; of sea-weed,
513.
Anchors in Jersey, made of stones, 511.
Ancient weapons and implements, 327;
group of pottery, 415.
Ancresse, see L'ANCRESSE.
Angular fragments, accumulation of, in
a fissure in Guernsey, 291.
Animal life, abundance of, in Skar, 73.
Animals of the Channel Islands, 200;
summary of species, 246.
Anne, Queen, privateering commenced
during her reign, 397.
Anne Port, Jersey, 98; cromlech at,
518.
Annelids of the Channel Islands, 236.
Antiquities and Archeology of the is-
lands, 408.
Antoninus, his Itinerary quoted, 427,
452.
Appeal of Ha! Ro! 539.
Apples, cultivation of in the islands, 487;
trade in, 507.
Approbation des Lois,' the book so
called, 532.
Apricot, cultivation of in Guernsey,
486.
Archeology and Antiquities, 408.
Arched rocks in Alderney, 26.
Archirondelle Tower, Jersey, 99, 352.
Architecture, church, 29, 57, 119, 548;
town, 549.
Ardents the, rocks so called, 124.
Area, of sea including the Channel Is-
lands, 5; occupied by the principal
groups of the Channel Islands, 16;
of Guernsey, 37; of Jersey, 92.
Armorica, the country so named in an-
cient times, 310, 315.
Arnold, Mr., his manufacture of iodine
in Guernsey, 514.
Arrest, law of, in the islands, 538.
Arrowroot, manufacture of, in Guernsey,
Artemidorus quoted by Strabo in refe-
rence to Channel İslands supersti-
tions, 424.
Associations, literary, 556.
Austen, Mr. Godwin, his remarks on
the geology of the Channel Islands,
260, 272.
Autel de Dehus, Guernsey, 428.
Autelets, Sark, 76, 80, 264, 287.
Autumn, the best season to visit the
Channel Islands, 12; temperature
during, 138; flowers blossoming in,
177.
'Avocat de la Reine,' the officer so called
in Jersey, 525.
Babington, Professor, his work on the
botany of the Channel Islands, 166,
175.
Bacchic orgies of the Channel Islands,
425.
Bacchus and bacchanals, their repre-
sentatives in the islands, 424.
Bailiff, the, his office in the islands, 524.
Bailiwick of Guernsey, extent of, 519.
Bandinell, Dr., Dean of Jersey, his at-
tempt to anglicise the church in Jer-
sey, 367.
Bank notes current in the islands, 563.
Banks, savings and penny, 557.
Baptists in the Channel Islands, 405.
Barbican, Castle Cornet, Guernsey, 479.
Barilla, collectors of, on the Chaussey
Islands, 129; manufacture of, 513.
Barnacles, species of, found in the is-
lands, 231.
Barnouic, plateau de, 124.
Barometer, record of observations of,
141, 150.
Barometer and other instruments, ac-
count of those used in Dr. Hoskins'
meteorological observations in Guern-
sey, 133.
Battle, naval, fought off Guernsey in
the reign of Edward III., 359.
Bays of Guernsey, 44; of Jersey, 94.
Beau Port, Jersey, 113, 307.
Beau Sejour, Guernsey, 58; camellias
at, 497.
Bec du Nez, Guernsey, 45; Sark, 80.
Bee, leaf cutter, its habits, 225.
Beetles of the Channel Islands, 224.
"Billet d'Etat," its meaning, 527.
Birds of the Channel Islands, 203.
Bishop, the, how his authority was
exercised in the fourteenth century,
357.
Bishop of Coutances, termination of
his power as Metropolitan in 1656,
Braye-du-Val, Guernsey, 53; pond
near there, 213.
Breccia in caverns in Guernsey, 292.
Brechou, Isle of, 71, 84, 265; raised
beach at, 280.
Brehaut, Rev. T. C., on the training of
fruit trees, 490.
Brehou Island, near Guernsey, its fort,
Breton origin of the Channel Islands
population suggested, 325.
Breton legends, value of, 331.
Brevint, Dr., appointed to St. John's
parish, Jersey, 367.
Brick clay in Guernsey, 296.
Bricks exported from Jersey, 501.
Britany, when first so called, 314; va-
rious races inhabiting, 325.
Brown rat in some of the islands, 201.
Bryozoa of the islands, 219.
Brunechild and Childebert, their attempt
to poison St. Sampson, 318.
Buckland, Mrs., her assistance to Dr.
Bowerbank acknowledged, 243.
Buildings in Alderney, 29.
Bulbous plants in Guernsey, 490.
Bulk of individuals of the invertebrata
in Guernsey, 301.
Burhou Islands, near Alderney, de-
scribed, 31; storm petrel breeds
there, 207; leaf cutter bee at, 225.
Burons, Sark, rocks and islands, 71,
265; view of, 298.
Busk, Mr., his assistance acknowledged,
Butterflies of the Channel Islands, 226;
useful in comparing the fauna of the
islands, 300.
by, a termination common in Denmark,
333; on the Tees, 334; and in Lin-
colnshire, 335; not in the Channel
Islands, 452.
Cabbage, cow, grown in Jersey, 477.
Cabot, value of the measure so called,
566.
Caen stone used in the parish church,
Alderney, 29.
Caer, its meaning as an affix, 312.
Cæsar, his mention of the tribes who
inhabited the mainland in his time,
310; his notice of the Druids, 419.
Cæsar, Fort, Jersey, 99.
Cæsarea, a name for Jersey, 312; its
derivation, 452.
Calvinistic origin of the island Pro-
testantism, 365.
Camden, on an early speculation as to
the superstitions of the islanders,
428; his account of the Jersey
cromlech, 412.
Camellia japonica, account of, 497.
Candie, Guernsey, 58; orange tree at,
498.
Canons of church government of Dr.
Bandinell accepted in Jersey, 367.
Cantons, division of the town parish
of Guernsey into, 520.
Carey, Mr. F., of Guernsey, his account
of the produce of Guernsey cows, 481.
Carey, P. S., Esq., Bailiff of Guernsey,
his assistance acknowledged, 519;
the first English barrister who has
held the office of bailiff, 524.
Carnuntes or Chartres, country around
alluded to by Cæsar, 418.
Carré, Mr. H. O., his garden, 491; lists
of cultivated trees and shrubs, 492,
et seq.; his remarks on aloes, 500.
Carteret, Sir George de, his influence
in Jersey, 373; made a baronet, 381.
Casquets rocks, 32; sand-stone of, 269.
Casquets middle bank, 34.
Castle Cornet, Guernsey, 39,
tacked by the French under Evan of
Wales in the reign of Edward III.,
362; escape of the three commis-
sioners from, 377; defence of, 387;
considered useless, 390; view of, in
the time of Charles II., 391; view of
the Barbican, 479.
Catel Church, fresco in, 430.
Cats, the tailless variety found in Guern-
sey, 202.
Causes of climate in the Channel Is-
lands, 158.
Caverns of Guernsey, 46, 262; of Jer-
sey, 107; of Sark, 82, 287.
Celtic, see Keltic.
"Centeniers" of Jersey, their office, 521.
Cephalopodous molluscs of the Channel
Islands, 214.
Ceremonies, superstitious, of the early
inhabitants of the Channel Islands,
413.
Chalk flints on the Jersey shores, 273.
Chambers of Commerce, 556.
Change, impending over the Channel
Islands, 14; of episcopal allegiance
of the islands, 365.
Changes, annual, on the shores of the
Channel Islands, 286.
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