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ingly favourable. It is intended that the harbour debt shall be gradually reduced, before any further expenses of importance are incurred.
The revenue of Jersey is also chiefly derived from the "Impot," or tax on wines and spirits, originally (in the reign of Charles II.) appropriated for the building and maintaining of a college, or workhouse and house of relief, and for certain 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 exceeds £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 something less than a quarter of a million sterling,-paying interest at three and a-half per cent. 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 revenue is so far in excess of the expenditure that if no extraordinary public works are undertaken, the whole Assembly debt may be paid off in a little more than ten years.
Abbey, ancient, in Chaussey Islands,
Acaleph 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, 541.
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, 551; hotel accom-
modation, 569; money, 572; mea-
sures, 577.
Apricot, cultivation of in Guernsey,
Archæology and Antiquities, 408.
Arched rocks in Alderney, 26.
Archirondelle Tower, Jersey, 99, 352.
Architecture, church, 29, 57, 119, 547;
town, 548.
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,
516.
Artemidorus quoted by Strabo in refe-
rence to Channel Islands 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,
'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, 573.
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 meteorological
observations in Guernsey, 133.
Bathing arrangments, 570.
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;
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,
365.
Bishops, various, to whom the islands
have been subject, 365.
Bissets rocks, Guernsey, 50.
Bivalve shells of the Channel Islands,
Black rat, common in some of the Chan-
nel Islands, 201.
Blake, Commander of the Parliamentary
forces, attack on Jersey by, 385.
Blown sands, 110, 294, 462.
Bon Air, Guernsey, view of, 45.
Bonne Nuit, Jersey, 103; cherts and
hornstones there, 271.
Bordeaux Harbour, Guernsey, 53.
Botany of the Channel Islands, 165.
Bottom of the sea around the Channel
Islands, 6.
Boulders, at Saie Harbour, Jersey, 275;
derived from the conglomerate rock,
Jersey, 292; of decomposed syenite
in Alderney, 293.
Bouley Bay, Jersey, 100, 102; view of,
474.
Bouquet, see DOM BOUQUET.
Boutiques caverns, Sark, 79.
Bowden, inveigles the commissioners on
board his ship, 377.
Bowerbank, Dr., his account of the
Channel Island sponges, 243.
Brackish water ponds, with mixed sea
and fresh water fish, in Guernsey and
Jersey, 213.
Braye Harbour, Alderney, 22; boss of
porphyry there, 268.
Braye the, Alderney, 21.
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,
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,
576.
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, 42; at-
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,
423.
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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