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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