Changes of climate, induced by change
of elevation of land, 159; observed
in passing from one island to ano-
ther, 162.

Channel, English, section across, 6.
Channel Islands, their geographical
position, 3; names of principal
groups, 16; summary of climate,
156; summary of flora, 198; and
fauna, 246; a good school for geo-
logy, 248; summary of their earliest
history, 349; their names absent in
the Norse sagas, 335; antiquities,
408; language, 439; agriculture, 459;
horticulture, 483; laws, 531; consti-
tution, 543; means of access, 563;
local monies, 571; weights, 573, and
measures, 575; statistics, 578.
Chapelle Mauve, Sark, 79.

Chapels, ancient, of Guernsey, list of,

429.

Charitable institutions, 557.

Charles I. declares war against France,
367.

Charles, Prince of Wales (1646) ar-
rives at Jersey, 378.

Charles II., address from Guernsey to,
391; second visit to Jersey, 394.
Charters, oldest, relating to neutrality,

359; royal, have the force of laws, 532.
Chartres, see CARNUNTES.

Chasse marée, account and view of this
kind of vessel, 17.

Chateau l'Etoc, Fort, 23.

Chattuarii, people so called, 343.
Chaumontel pear, cultivated in the is-
lands, 489; trade in, 507.
Chaussey Archipelago, 122; radiata of,
238; granite of, 505.

Cheapness of the Channel Islands as a
residence not remarkable, 550.
"Chef Plaids," or Chief Pleas of the
Royal Court, Guernsey, 529.
"Chefs de famille," ratepayers so called
in Guernsey, 520.

Cherts at Bonne Nuit Harbour, Jersey,
271.

Chou-cavalier, or great cow cabbage of
Jersey, 477.

Cherry, cultivation of in the Channel
Islands, 486.

Childebert, King, visited by St. Samp-
son, 318.

Chlorite, its abundance in the Channel
Islands, 259.

Christianity, its first introduction into
the Channel Islands, 316, 325.

Churches, of Alderney, 29; of Guern

sey, 40, 57; of Sark, 88; of Jersey,
119; of the islands generally, 548.
Church architecture in Alderney, 29;
Guernsey, 57, 547; Jersey, 119, 547.
Church arrangements, 355; and ser-
vices, 547.

Church government in the islands, 366.
Cider made in and exported from Jersey,

507.

Cirrhipedes of the islands, 231.
Clanque battery, Alderney, 19.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, attacked by a Guern-
sey mob, 404.

Clay worked in the islands, 296.
Clay slate in Rocquaine Bay, Guernsey,
alluded to, 257.

Claystone and claystone porphyry in
Jersey, 271.

Clearness of the air, a sign of coming

change of weather in the islands, 158.
Clergy of the islands, continental in
their feelings in the reign of John,
356; falling off of their revenues
under Protestantism, 365.
Climate of the Channel Islands, 12,
132; of Guernsey, 134; of Jersey,
148; of Alderney and Sark, 155; il-
lustrated by the flora, 198.
Clonque, Alderney, see CLANQue.
Cloud, quantity of, in Guernsey, 145
in Jersey, 151.

Club mosses not found in the Channel
Islands, 184.

Clubs in Jersey and Guernsey, 570.
Coast scenery, illustrations of, Alderney,
1, 25; Guernsey, 62, 255, 483; Sark,
81, 287, 298; Jersey, 112, 121, 289,
352, 474.

Cobo Bay, Guernsey, 51.

Coins in common circulation, 571.
Cold, extreme of, in Guernsey, 140.
Coleopterous insects of the Channel
Islands, 224.

College, Elizabeth, at Guernsey, 39,
554; Victoria, at Jersey, 95, 553.
Collings, Rev. W., account of his resi-
dence in Sark, 87; is the seigneur of
Sark, 407.

Collings, Mrs. W., her assistance ac-
knowledged, 190, 218, 219, 220, 230,
231, 235, 240.

Commerce, Chamber of, 556.

Commissioners seized by the Governor
at Castle Cornet, 377.

Committees, Public, of Jersey and
Guernsey, 528.

Communication, means of, 563.
Confiscation of church property in the
islands before the Reformation, 364.
Conger, large specimens caught off the
Channel Islands, 212.
Conglomerate, quartzy, in Giffard's Bay,
Jersey, 271, 273; compared with the
Alderney sand-stones, 274.
Consistory, established in St. Helier's,
and St. Peter's Port, in the reign of
Elizabeth, 365.

Constable, the, his position in the is
lands, 521.

Constitution of the Channel Islands,
518; peculiarity of, 543.

Constitution of John, its value and
nature, 355.

Contact of sand-stone with granite in
Alderney, 267.

Continental character of the island
fauna, 301.

Contrôle de la reine, the officer so called

in Guernsey, 525; in Alderney, 536.
Conway, Gen., his cromlech formerly in
Jersey, 411, et seq.

Copper ore found in Herm, 66.
Corallines of the islands, 241.
Corban, the submerged turf or peat of
Guernsey, 284.

Corbiére, Guernsey, described, 48; in-
trusive vein at, 255, 261; a fissure
there with limestone breccia, 291.
Corbières, the, Jersey, described, 110,
112, 290.

Cordon training for fruit trees. 490.
Cornet Castle, see CASTLE CORNET.
Costume of the Channel Islanders, 549.
Cotentin, its rocks recur in Cornwall,
256.

Cottette Point, near the Casquets, 33.
Coupe or Coupée, various promontories
so called, 47, 85, 100.
Couperon, the, Jersey, 101.

Cour du Quartier, 533.

Cour en Amirauté, its constitution, 530;
and working, 534.

Cour en corps, or full court, 530.
Court houses, 548.
Cousinship in the islands, 549.
Coutances, connection between the is-
lands and the diocese of, 356.
Coutumier, le, of Normandy, the foun-
dation of the island laws, 531.
Cow, Alderney, its characteristics, 480;
export of, 510.
Cow-cabbage, Jersey, 477.
Crabbe, Jersey, 105.

Crabbie, Alderney, 20.:

589

Crabs, common in the islands, 232;
trade in, 508.

Crête Point, Jersey, 99.
"Creux

or holes, origin of, 263; the
term explained, 290; in Guernsey,
46;
in Herm, 63; in Sark, 75; in
Jersey, 113.

Creux du Derrible, or Terrible, Sark,

75.

Creux Fantomes, Jersey, 114.

Creux Harbour, Sark, 73, 77; vein of
steatite there, 265.

Creux Mahie, Guernsey, 46, 49.
Crevichon, account of, 69.

Criminal Court, its composition, 535.
Cromlech, interior of, 407; specimen
near St. Heliers, 411; account of,
412; of Guernsey, 413; near Anne
Port, Jersey, 518.

Cromwell, Richard, address to from
Guernsey, 390.

Crops grown in the islands, 475.
Crustaceans of the Channel Islands,
232; trade in, 508.

Cryptogamic plants abundant in Guern-
sey, 199.

Cultivation, in the Chaussey Islands,
126; its influence on the flora of the
Channel Islands, 199.

Currency, island, 571.

Customary law of Normandy adapted
to the use of the islands, 531.
Custom House, English, when first in-
troduced in Guernsey, 399.
Customs of the Channel Islands pe-
culiar, 14, 547.

Cuttle fish and squids, 214.

D.

Daily range of temperature very small
in Guernsey, 139.

Dally, Mr., his account of the agricul-

ture of the Channel Islands, 459.
Damp months in Guernsey, 145.
Danby, Earl of, governor of Guernsey,
superseded by Warwick, 368.
Danes, often called Northmen or Nor-
mans, 329; their history, 344.
Danish origin of Rollo, 329.
Date of the earliest records, 330.
Debt, island laws affecting, 537.
De Carteret family, their manorial resi
dence in Jersey, 120; Sark leased to
the, 407.

Decay of Caen stone in Alderney
Church, 29.

Dean, the, his office in the islands, 542.
Decomposing rock, in Alderney, 27, 268;
near St. Heliers and St. Peter's Port,
462.

Deer formerly in Herm, 201.
Defensive works at Guernsey, 59.
De Hambye, legend concerning, 121,

455.

Dehus or Deuce, the devil, 428.
Deities of the Druids, 419.

De la Court Fund, Guernsey, 557.
Deliberative States of Guernsey, 526.
Denerel or dundrel, 577.

Denudation in the Channel Islands, 247.
Deputies, appointment of in the islands,

521.

Deroute, the channel so named, 91.
Derrible, see POINT DU DERRIBLE,
CREUX DU DERRIBLE.

Descent of property in the islands, 539.
Destroying power of the waves, 72, 306.
Destruction of rocks going on in Sark,
286.

Detached rocks, 289.

Devonshire, relation between the sponges
there and in the islands, 243.
Dews heavy in Guernsey, 146.
Dialects, numerous in the islands, 438;
specimens of, 440–451.
Diatomaccæ of the Islands, 193.
Digby, Lord, his intrigues in Ireland,
381.

Diminution in the quantity of water

stored in the rock in the islands, 471.
Diogenes Periegetes quoted on the sub-
ject of Bacchic orgies in the Channel
Islands, 426.

Dipterous insects of Jersey, 230.
Dirouilles rocks, near Jersey, 92.

Diseases common in Jersey, 160; in
Guernsey, 161.

Disintegration, depth of, 292.
Dispensary, public, in Jersey, 557.
Dissent in Guernsey, 403.
Dissenting services, 558.

Distribution of winds in Guernsey, 143.
Disturbance and upheavals, 275.
D'Ixcart Bay, Sark, 74.

Dobree, a name common to the islands
and to France, 403.

Dobree, Rev. D., his assistance acknow-
ledged, 206.

Doctrines of the Druids, 418.

Dol, Channel Islands once belonged to
diocese of, 325.

Dom Bouquet, his Repertorium referred
to, 317.

Doorways of houses in Guernsey, 60.
Douet de la Mer, Jersey, 101.
Douvres rocks, 124; wreck off the, 131.
"Douzaine," its nature and composi
tion in Guernsey, 520.

Doyle, Sir John, his speech on roads,

59.

Doyle Column, Guernsey, 46.
Drainage, natural, of Jersey, 92, 117;
artificial, 472.

Drayton's Polyolbion quoted, 425.
Druidical remains in Guernsey, 53; Sark,

87; Jersey, 99; Alderney, 268.
Druidic origin of cromlechs considered,

416.

Druidism only a part of the old Keltie
religion, 420.

Dry measures of the islands, 576.
Dry months in Guernsey, 145.
Dukes of Normandy, their names pro-
bably gothic, 339, 451.

Duncan's "History of Guernsey" re-
ferred to, 140.

Dundrel or denerel, 577.

Dusii, Keltic deities so called, 428.

E.

Early history of the Channel Islands,
309, 330, 349.

Earthquakes in the Channel Islands,
records of, 278.

Ecclesiastical architecture of the islands,
29, 57, 119, 429.

Ecclesiastical arrangements in the is
lands, in the fourteenth century, 357;
at the present time, 541.

Ecclesiastical changes in the islands,
365.

Ecclesiastical courts in the islands, 542.
Ecclesiastical contests between the is-
lands and James I., 367.
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 540.
Ecrehou Rocks, near Jersey; old build-

ings upon them, 16; described, 92.
Ecrivains or solicitors in Jersey, 531.
Education, legal, 545; statistics of, 581.
Educational establishments, 553.

Edward I., harbour of Guernsey ordered
to be built in his reign, 40; condition
of the islands under, 353.
Edward III., his appropriation of the
temporal rights of the Church in the
islands, 357; naval battle fought off
Guernsey in his reign, 359.
Edward VI., English liturgy introduced
in the islands during his reign, 364.
Elective States of Guernsey, 526.

Electric state of the atmosphere in
Guernsey, 146.

Elements of the climate of Guernsey,
134.

Elevation, results of, in the islands, 253;

mean direction, 260; proofs of, 281,
306; recency of, 463.
Elimbertus, see Hilarius.

Elizabeth Castle, Jersey, 115; view of
at sunset, 157; attacked in time of
Charles II., 386.

Elizabeth College, Guernsey, 39, 554.
Elizabeth, Queen, religious persecutions
in the islands during her reign, 364;
ecclesiastical changes in her time, 365;
charter confirming privileges given
by, 396; arbitrary power assumed
by the Governor of Jersey during
her reign, 519.

Emery said to be found in Jersey, 271.
English liturgy introduced in the is-
lands under Edward VI., 364.
Entomostraca of Guernsey, 235.
Epercherie, landing-place so named,
Sark, 78.

Episcopal Sees to which the islands have
been successively subject, 365.
Equable temperature of the islands,
effect of, 141.

Escape from Castle Cornet of the Com-
missioners, 377.

Essex Fort, Alderney, 25.

Eutii, or Jutes, their origin, 342.
Etac l', or le Tas, Jersey, 109.
Etat l', or le Tas, Sark, 73.

Evan of Wales, his attack on Guernsey,
362.

Exemption from arrest in the islands,
limitation of, 540.

Exeter, the islands for a short time
attached to the See of, 365.
Exhibitions at Oxford, from Elizabeth
College, Guernsey, 554.
Expense of the public works at Alder-
ney, 21.

Extreme of cold and heat recorded in
Guernsey, 140.

F.

Family ties, the islanders adhere strongly
to them, 14.

Fanshawe, R., his proclamation on the
landing of the Prince of Wales in
Jersey, 380.

Farmhouses of Guernsey, 59; charac-
teristic style of in the islands, 547.
Farming processes, old fashion of those
adopted in the islands, 476.

591

Farms, magnitude of in the islands,
473; distribution of in Jersey, 475.
Faucheurs, les, rocks so called, on the
Minquiers plateau, 123.

Fauna of the Channel Islands, sum-
mary of, 246.

Fauna and flora of the islands, their
bearing on geological questions, 298.
Females, excess of, at St. Helier's, Jersey,
579.

Fermain Bay, Guernsey, 44.

Ferns, rare, at Petit Bot, Guernsey, 48;
species found in the islands, 81.
Ferriéres rocks, near Herm, 69.
Feudal relics, 546.

Fig, cultivation of, in the islands, 486.
Filberd does not ripen well in the is-
lands, 487.

Fish, trade in, 508.

Fishermen on the Chaussey Islands,

128.

Fishes of the Channel Islands, 209.
Fissures filled up from mineral veins,
252.

Flints from the chalk, found in the bays
of Jersey, 293.

Fliquet Bay, Jersey, 100.

Flora of the Channel Islands, general
summary of, 198.

Flowering of plants, early in Guernsey,
141, 497; in the Channel Islands
generally, 169.

Fogs in Guernsey, 146.

Food, supply of, in Sark, 89, 549; to
the islands generally, 510.
Fornaldar Saga, a story from, 338.
Foraminifera of the islands, 242; fossil
species dredged off Guernsey, xii. 295.
Forbes, Edward, his speculations on
the distribution of species, 300.
Force of wind in Guernsey, 142.
Foreign plants growing in the Channel
Islands, 199, 492.

Foreigners, great number of in Jersey,
581.

Fossil foraminifera dredged off Guern-
sey, 295.

Fort constructed on the Chaussey Is
lands, 130.

Fort Essex, Alderney, 25.
Fort George, Guernsey, 59.
Fort Regent, Jersey, raised beach near,
280.

Fort Torgee, Alderney, 20.
Frank empire, extent of, 346.
Frank monasteries, annals of useful,
331.

Franks, the, superseded the Goths, 339.
Free-farm rents in Herm, 405.
French attack on Jersey in 1781, 398.
French character of the natural history
of the islands, 300.

French coast, seen from Guernsey pre-
vious to bad weather, 158.
French language, used in the courts of
law, 534; and in the churches, 542.
French Revolution, its effect on the
islands, 403.

French towns, of Normandy and Bri-

tany, named from Saints, 311.
Frescoes in the churches, 430.
Fresh-water fish of the Channel Islands,
213.

Fret Point, Jersey, 114.

Froissart, his account of Evan of Wales,
362.

Fruits, cultivation of in the islands,
484; exports of, 506.

Fuchsia, growth of in Guernsey, 499.
Fucus of various kinds used for making
barilla, 129.

Fungi of Sark, 72; of the islands gene-
rally, 190.

G.

Gallic church not missionary, 317.
Gallienne, Mr., his assistance acknow-

ledged, 206; his work in the Guern-
sey Museum, 555.

Game formerly abundant in Herm, 67.
Game laws in the islands, 538.

Garden lands, value of near St. Heliers,
474.

Gardens of Guernsey, 56.

Garonne, the, the early Iberic frontier,
409.

Gascony held with the islands under
Henry III., 357.

Gaudion, Mrs., her assistance acknow-
ledged, 192.

Gaul, Keltic at an early period, 408.
Genoese connected with Guernsey in
the fourteenth century, 453.
Geographical position of the Channel
Islands, 4; of Alderney, 19; of
Guernsey, 36; of Sark, 71; of Jer-
sey, 92; of the Chaussey Islands, 124.
Geological interest of Alderney, 30.
Geology and mineralogy of the Channel
Islands, 247, 276.

Geology, bearing of fauna and flora of
the islands on, 298.

George, Fort, Guernsey, 59; aloes
planted on the cliff's near, 500.

Gothic origin of the names of the dukes
of Normandy, 339.

Gothic hypothesis of the peopling of
the islands, its value may be deter-
mined by collating codes, 350.
Goths, progress of, in Europe, 339.
Gouffre, the, Guernsey, 49.

Gough, Mr., his notes on Jersey crom-
lechs, 412.

Gouliot Caverns, Sark, described, 81,

288; Rock and Passage, 84.

Gouray Harbour, Sark, 83.

Governor of Guernsey, complaints of
and attempt made to limit his power
under James I., 366.

Grand Sarrazin, its meaning, 452.
Grand Havre, Guernsey, 52.

Grand Mare, the pond so named leased
under George III., 405.
Grand Rocque, Guernsey, 51.
"Grande Ile' of the Chaussey group,

125.