Norman character, of the islanders, 14;
of the fauna and flora of the islands,
299.

Norman origin of the Channel Islands
population disputed, 325.
Norman, Rev. A. M., his assistance to
Dr. Bowerbank, 243.
Normandy, how Germanised, 329.
Normans, enquiry as to their origin,
310; reason for discussing their his-
tory, 329.

Norse indications, absent in the Channel
Islands, 335.

Norse sagas, difficulty of giving an
opinion concerning them, 335.
Northmen, frequently Danes, 329;
their name applied by the Franks,
346.

Norwegian spoken where the Northmen
visited, 332.

Novelty, absence of, in the island fauna
and flora, 299.

Nudibranchiate molluscs of the Channel
Islands, 216, 218.

Number of islands and groups of rocks
in the Channel group, 15.

0.

Object of the work stated, 15.
Occupations of the people, statistical
account of, 581.

Orange trees, remarkable, in Guernsey,
498.

Orchards formerly more common in
Jersey than now, 474.

Orders in Council have the force of
law in the islands, 532.
'Ordonnances' of Jersey made by the
States, 529; of Guernsey made by
the Royal Court, 530.
Orgueil, Mont, see MONT ORGUeil.
Origin of the Normans, reason for dis-
cussing the question, 329.
Origin of the sagas, 337.

Ormers, eaten in Sark, 89; their shells
formerly exported, 510.

Ortach Rock described, 32; figured,
34; wild fowl breed there, 207.
Orthopterous insects of Jersey, 225.
Osborne, Sir Philip, his influence in
Guernsey, 373.

Ot lingua Saxonica, its meaning and
application, 342.

Oyster trade in Jersey, 508.

Ozone observations in the Channel Is-
lands, 146.

P.

Palgrave, Sir F., his notice of the want
of value of the Sagas for history, 337.
Pampas grass in Guernsey, 500.
Parasitic crustaceans of the Channel
Islands, 235.

Pardon granted to the inhabitants of
Guernsey after the Restoration, 392.
Parochial officers of the islands, 521.
Parochial schools, 553.

Parsimony of the islanders, 548.
Partridge, red-legged, formerly in the
island, 208.

Passe au Singe, or Swinge, 32.
Paternoster rocks, near Jersey, 92.
Peach, cultivation of, in the island of
Guernsey, 486.

Pears, cultivation of, in Jersey and
Guernsey, 489; trade in, 507.
Peat beds, at Guernsey, submerged, 282.
Penny banks, 557.

Penzance, comparison of its climate
with that of the Channel Islands,
156.

Perelle Bay, Guernsey, 51.

Persecutions under Mary and Elizabeth,
364, 369.

Personal property, law of division of,
537.

Petit Bot Bay, Guernsey, 48, 55; rare
ferns at, 183; caverns at, 262.
Petit Port, Guernsey, 46.

Petite ecôle, Guernsey, 554.
Petrel, Storm, Mr. Gallienne's remarks
on, 207.

Phenicians probably reached the islands,
410.

Phosphorescence of the sea, cause of,
239.

Phosphorus absent from the soil and
subsoil of the Channel Islands gene-
rally, 461, 478.

Physical features of the Islands, 7.
Picard dialect, specimen of the, 449.
Picturesque beauty of the Channel Is-
lands, causes of, 277.
Pier, landing at, 567.
Pierced rocks explained, 289.
Pierre au Vraic, 32.

Pierres de Lecq, Jersey, 105.
Pierson, Major, his defence of Jersey,

398.

Pigs, breed of. in the islands, 482; im-
ports of, 510.

Pinnacle Rock, Jersey, 109, 289.
Piquet, Mr., his additions to the Flora

of Jersey, 175; his list of Jersey

mosses, 186; his assistance acknow-
ledged, 190, 224, 229, 230, 242.
Pirates in the Channel in the time of
Helerius, 323.

Plaids d'Heritage, the court so called,
530; its business explained, 534.
Plan of Braye Harbour, Alderney, 22;
of Guernsey harbour, 41; of Jersey
harbour, 95.

Plat Saline, Alderney, 20.
Platte Roque, 273.

Pleadings in the courts, how conducted,
535.

Pleinmont Point, Guernsey, 50.
Plémont Point, Jersey, 106.

Plough, great, used in the islands,

477.

Plum, cultivation of, 486.

Plymouth brethren, their chapels, 560.
Poids de marc, its value, 573.
Poingdestre, Mr., his work on crom-
lechs, 413.

Point du Derrible, or Point Terrible,
Sark, 75; rocks at, 264.
Poisonous soil in Guernsey, 463.
Police court in the islands, 535.
Polyolbion, Drayton's poem of that
name quoted, 425.

Polyzoa, their structure, 219.
Pommier Banks, 33.

Pomponius Mela on the Gaulic deities,
4.27.

Ponds of brackish water with sea and
fresh-water fish in Jersey, 111; in
Jersey and Guernsey, 213.
Pontac, Jersey, 97.

Population of the islands, at the com-

mencement of the Civil Wars, 368;
in 1851 and 1861, 578.
Population of the Chaussey Islands,
migratory, 129.

Poquelays or cromlechs described, 428.
Porphyries of the Channel Islands, 251.
Port-es-Sees, Sark, 83.

Port du Moulin, Sark, serpentine at,
264.

Port la Jument, Sark, 80.
Portelet Bay, Jersey, 115.

Porters, arrangements for on landing,
568.

Postal arrangements very incomplete
in the islands, 566.

Pot, the, a cavern so called in Sark, 73.
Potash, small quantity of, in the soil of
all the islands, 465.
Potatoes, quantity exported and im-
ported, 476, 506.

599

Potter's clay found in the islands, 296.
Pottery, ancient, figured, 415.
Poultry, breeds of, in the islands, 482.
Pound sterling, its value in island cur-
rency, 572.

Pound weight used in the islands, 573.
Presbyterian, element in Jersey, 367;
discipline, influence of, 542.
Pressure of air in Guernsey, 142.
'Prevôt,' the sheriff of Guernsey so
called, 525.

Prince's Tower, Jersey, 120.
Privateering in the islands during the

war of the French revolution, 403.
Privilege of neutrality in the islands,
history of, 358.

'Procureur de la Reine,' the officer so
called in Jersey and Guernsey, 525;
in Alderney, 536.

Produce of land in Jersey, 475.
Projets de loi, framed by the Royal
Court of Guernsey, for the approval
of the states, 530.

Promontories in Guernsey and Sark
rendered defensible, 76; formed by
elevation, within certain limits, 257.
Property, laws affecting the succession
of, 537.

Protestantism of the islands chiefly

Calvinistic, 365; very marked dur-
ing the Civil Wars, 573; always
puritanical, 541.

Provençal, a distinct language during
the middle ages, 433.

Prynne, his description of Mont Or-
gueil, 371.

Public business of the islands con-

ducted by committees, 528.
Public debt of the islands, 582.
Public library of Jersey, 556.
Pule, la, see LA PULE.
Puritanical feeling of the islanders, 542.
Pyrenees, cromlechs of the islands com-
pared with those in the, 416.

Q.

Quadrupeds of the Channel Islands,
200.

Quakers in Guernsey, 404.

Quarries, sand-stone, in Alderney, 23;
granite, in Chaussey, 129; in Guern-
sey, 504; in Jersey, 103, 505.
Quarter of wheat, value of, 539.
Quartiers or law terms in the islands,

533.

Quartz rock abundant in the islands,
260.

Rabbits common in Herm, 64.
Race, or Ras, of Alderney, 18.
Radiata of the Channel Islands, 237.
"Rain-fall in Guernsey, 144; Jersey, 151;
Alderney, 155: in the islands gene-
rally, 470.

Rain-gauge and other instruments used
in meteorological observations in
Guernsey, 133.

Raised beaches, 279.

'Rambles of a Naturalist,' by M. de
Quatrefages, quoted, 128, 130.

Range of temperature in Guernsey, 138;
in Jersey, 149.

Rat, the black species found in some of
the islands, 201.
Rat island, Alderney, 24.
Reading rooms, 569.

Recent separation of the Channel Is-
lands from the continent considered,
305.

Rectors of the islands, their political
position, 525.

Red deer formerly in the islands, 201.
Red-legged partridge formerly in the
Channel Islands, 208.

Refraction, irregular, in the islands,
158.

Refugees, French, their propagation of
Calvinistic doctrines, 365.
Registration of Acts of Parliament in

the islands necessary, 533; of mort-
gages, 537.

Religious establishments in the islands
before the Reformation, 364.

Rent of land in the islands high, 475.

'Rents,' peculiar island meaning of the
term, 539; a common investment,
549.

Reptiles of the Channel Islands, 208.
Revenue and debt of the islands, 582.
Rhododendrons, cultivation of in the
islands, 497.

Rich soil, properly so called, not found
in the Channel Islands, 465.
Right of purchase or pre-emption of

land by the lord of the manor, 538.
'Rimes Guernésiaises' quoted, 441.
Ripening of fruit early in the islands,
485.

Road metal, Guernsey granite used for,
503.

Roads of Guernsey, 59; of Jersey, 118.
Roche Pendante, Alderney, 25, 266.
Rochers, les, Alderney, 30.

Rocks, near Guernsey, 37; of the Chan-
nel Islands, list of, 297; at Beau Port,
Jersey, 307.

Rocquaine Bay, Guernsey, 50.
Rollo, his origin, 329; Icelandic account
of his history, 338; doubts about his
biography, 351; probably Gothic,
351; appeal to, 538.

Roman, antiquities in the islands, 429;
element in the Norman character,
310.

Romans, possibility of their having
helped to construct the Druidical
monuments considered, 422.
Rondnez Point, Jersey, 103.
Rotten stone found on the Chaussey
Islands, 127.

Roulette des Fées,' possible origin of,
416.

Roustel Rock, near Guernsey, 61.
Royal Agricultural Society, prize me-

moir on the agriculture of the islands
in its journal, 459.

Royal charters have the force of law in
the islands, 532.

Royal Court, composition of in Jersey
and Guernsey, 525; power of in
Guernsey, 529; in Alderney, 536.
Royal Square, Jersey, 95.
Rozel Bay, Jersey, 101.

Ruined arch at Cape Grosnez, Jersey,
109, 501.

Rufus, allegiance of the islands during
his reign, 353.

Rullecourt, his attack on Jersey, 398.
Russel Channel, 34, 61.

Rylands, Mr. T. G., his assistance ac-
knowledged, 195.

S.

Sagas of no value as historical docu-
ments, 336.

Sagas, Icelandic, 331.

Saie Harbour, Jersey, 101; notice of
boulders, 293.

Saints Bay, Guernsey, 47.
Salerie Battery, Guernsey, 353.
Salisbury, the islands for a short time
attached to the See of, 365.
Samarez, or Saumarez Bay, Jersey, 97.
Sambule, rocks so called, 38.

Sand-eeling at Guernsey and Jersey,

212.

Sands of the shores, 294-5; of the coast

of Herm, 65; of Jersey, 462.
Sand-stone, of Alderney, used for Guern
sey buildings, 23; its probable age,
269; of the Casquets, 257; of Bou-
ley Bay, 275.

Sanitary condition of the Channel Is-
lands, 160.

Saragouzais, Les, who they were, 452.
Sardriére rock noticed, 70.

Sark, account of, 70; the harbour, 77;
the caverns, 79, 82; the coupée, 35
the climate, 155; the zoophytes, 241;
geology of, 263; earthquake near, in
1690, 278; history of,. 405; antiqui-
ties of, 413; the dialect, 439; soil of,
464; little weed there, 468; drainage
in, 471; has an independent legal
existence, 519; its governing body,
521; court of, 537; its militia, 551;
hotel accommodation, 569; its mea-
sures, 577.

Sark, Little, 83.
Sauchet, Jersey, 102.

Sault de San Jehan, Sark, 81.
Saumarez Manor House, Guernsey, 57.
Saumarez, a common family name in
the islands, 97. See also SAMAREZ.
Savings banks, 557.

Saxon as well as Danish element of the

population of Britany, 346.
Saxon chronicle, use of, 331.
'Saxon shore,' the coast so called, 313.
Saxons and Goths fraternised, 342.
Saxons or Germans, their habits be-
fore the settlement of the islands,
313.

Scandinavian institutions often called
Norman, 310.

Scandinavians, sound inferences as to
the history of, 332.

Scenery of the Channel Islands gene-
rally, 11, 276; of Guernsey, 52; of

601

Herm, 63; of Sark, 72; of Jersey,

93.

Schôle Bank, 34.

Scholefield, Dr., on the climate of Jer-
sey, 160.

Schomburgk, Sir Robert, his account
of the habit of rubbing stones in
Demarara, 416.

Schools, parochial, 554; attendance at,
581.

Scythian population introduced into
Gaul, 315.

Sea-anemones, notice of, 240.

Sea-bottom around the Channel Is-
lands, 6.

Sea-horse (hippocampus) occasionally
found in Guernsey, 213.

Seaside plants of Jersey and Guern-
sey, 177.

Sea-slugs of the Channel Islands, 216,

218.

Seasons, mean temperature of, in Guern-
sey, 136; in Jersey, 149.
Sea-weed, of Chaussey, 129; list of spe-
cies found in the Channel Islands,
191; its value for economic pur-
poses, 512.

Secondary and tertiary rocks almost

absent in the Channel Islands, 218.
Section, across the British Channel, 6;
from Casquets to Cape la Hague, 18;
across Guernsey, 36; from Guern-
sey to Sark, 69; across Jersey :-
physical, 91, and geological, 270;
through the Minquiers and Chaussey
Islands, 122.

Sedges, and other pond and marsh
plants of the Channel Islands, 179.
Sees, various, to which the islands have
been ecclesiastically attached, 365.
Seigneurie, the, in Sark, 87.
Seignie Bay, Sark, 80.

Sena, an island so named, probably one
of the Channel Islands, 427.
Separation of the Channel Islands from
the Continent not recent, 305.
Serpentine in Sark, 264.

Services at churches and chapels, 560.
Shales of Jersey, 117, 271.

Sharks occasionally found off the Chan-
nel Islands, 213.

Sheep, breed of, in the islands, 482.
Shell beach of Herm, 65. '

Shells buried in cromlechs, 415.
Shrimping at the Chaussey Islands, 128.
Shrimps more common in Jersey than
in Guernsey, 233.

Shrubs and trees of the Channel Is-
lands, 167; cultivated and tender
kinds, 492.

Silver ore, veins containing, in Sark,
263.

Singe, Passe du, or Swinge, Alderney,
32.

Sixties and Forties, divisions of society

so named in Guernsey, 549.
Size of individuals of invertebrata in
the fauna of the islands, 302.
Slates of Jersey, 117; of Guernsey, 257.
Slavonians of the Baltic probably
reached the islands, 410.
Small farming, advantages of, 479.
Smith, Major, R.M., his additions to
the flora of Guernsey, 175; his list
of Guernsey mosses, 186.
Smuggling, suppression of in the islands,

399.

Snails, slugs, &c., of the Channel Is-
lands, 216.

Snow in Guernsey very rare, 145.
Society, state of in Jersey and Guern-
sey, 549; Agricultural and Horticul-
tural, 556.

Soil of the islands, account of, 460; poi-
sonous variety in Guernsey, 463; not
naturally rich, 465.

Solicitors in Jersey, number of, 531.
Song birds in the Channel Islands, 205.
Sorel Point, Jersey, 104.
Sound of Chaussey, 128.

Spain, retreat of the Goths into, 339;
threatens the Channel Islands, 372.
Spaniards, connected with Guernsey
during the fourteenth century, 452.
Spanish fleet, battle with, off the islands
in 1343, 360.

Spiders of Guernsey, 230.

Sponges of the Channel Islands, 243.
Spring, its mean temperature in Guern-
sey, 137; flowers of, in Guernsey,
175.

Square measure in the islands, 575.
St. Andrew's Valley, Guernsey, 54.
St. Apolline's chapel, Guernsey, 430.
St. Aubin's, Jersey, 115; sand and gra-
vel pits there, 292.

St. Brelade's, Jersey, the bay, 114, 121;
the church, 328, 430.

St. Catherine's, Jersey, the harbour,
99; rocks there, 272; geology of,
274; view of, 352.

St. Clement's Bay, Jersey, 97.

St. George estate, Guernsey, 58.
St. Helerius, his history, 320.

St. Helier's, Jersey, town and harbour,
94; raised beach, 280; cromlech at,
411; population of, 579.
St. Marculf visited by St. Helerius, 322.
St. Martin's Porch, Guernsey, 57.
St. Mary's, Jersey, its church, 547.
St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, 110; pond
there, 213; battle near, 385.
St. Ouen's manor house, Jersey, 119,
547.

St. Peter's Port, Guernsey, 39; raised
beach near, 280; niche in the church,
541.

St. Sampson, the first apostle of Guern-
sey, 317.

St. Sampson's (town), Guernsey, 39,
43; stone trade of, 503.

St. Saviour's Valley, Guernsey, 54,
Stalk-eyed crustaceans of the Channel
Islands, 232.

Stalks of the cabbage, used for walking

sticks and pea sticks in Jersey, 477.
Stanford, Mr. E. C., his paper on sea-
weeds referred to, 513.

Star-fishes and sea-urchins, 237.
'States,' origin of, 520; composition
of, 526; Elective of Guernsey, 526;
Deliberative of Guernsey, 527; of
Jersey, 529.

Steamboat communication, 563.
Steatite, vein of, in Sark, 265.
Stephen, allegiance of the islands du-
ring his reign, 353.

Step-like appearance of horizontal veins,

256.

Stew, natural, with mixed sea and fresh-
water fish, in Jersey, 111; in Jersey
and Guernsey, 213.

Stock, breeds of, 480.

Stone anchor used in Jersey, 511.
Stone cutters of Chaussey, 129.
Stone trade, 502.

Stonehenge not mentioned by the Ro-
man writers, 423.

Storm-Petrel, Mr. Gallienne's remarks
on, 207.

Strabo, his notice of the superstitions
of the Channel Islands, 423.
Stratification, appearance of, in the gra-
nite at Jerbourg, 262.
Streams in Jersey, 92.

Street in Guernsey, view of, 459.
Submerged forests in Guernsey, 282.
Submerged peat explained, 283.
Subsidence, assumed as necessary to ac-
count for submerged peat, 285; no
evidence of recent movements of this