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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.? 1. The Channel Islands. By F. Ansted and R. G. Latham. 8vo. London, 1862. 2. Les lies de la Manche. Par Victor Hugo. 8vo. Paris, 1882. yachting men, who cruise among the islands of the L Norman Archipelago in the late summer, have probably scant knowledge of the monuments of ancient Aryan life that they are passing in their holiday voyages. Bold, rockv coasts, interspersed with smiling little bays; crowded old towns, each fringed with modest modern villas, and peopled by quiet, comfortable-looking inhabitants, among whom refugees from the storm and stress of French and English life will be occasionally discernible; that is all that Jersey and Guernsey will present to the casual observer. Landing at S. Helier or S. Peter Port, he will find narrow streets, sometimes as steep as those of Genoa, and mostly paved with granite. The uproar is sometimes prodigious; he might fancy himself being run over on Ludgate Hill; till, turning his head in speechless alarm, he finds that all the tumult has been caused by the rattle of the boulders under a baker's truck. The shops, though with poor frontages, are generally large and well supplied; untaxed tobacco and cheap liqueurs greet him in the windows of some; wearing apparel, articles of local jewelry, excellent fruit and dairy produce, appear in others. Many of the trade notices, all the official advertisements and proclamations, are in French as well as English: here an glise Evangelifjue bespeaks the presence of Huguenots: there a black flight of Jesuits, descending from the groves round an extinct hotel, indicates the existence of a Catholic establishment. In the town church the Sunday service of the Anglican rite is celebrated in French, with the aid of a time-honoured version of the ' Book of Common Prayer.' The p...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458905376 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458905373 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $33.77 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 430 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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