An Account of the Isle of Jersey Author:Philip Falle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Description of the. Island. THE Coasts of Normandy and lire/ague Provinces of France meet in almost a Right Angle, and form a Spacious Golf or Bay, which takes its Name from Mont-Saint-Michel, a famous Abbey of Benedictins seated at the bottom or inmost recess of it. In this great Bay, betwixt Cap de la Hague in Normandy, and Cap de Frehelle in Brelagne, the Islands of Jersey, Guernezey, and the rest, lie as it were in a cluster, yet at reasonable Distances from each other () ; and nearer to Normandy than to Bretagne. Jersey is the farthest within the Bay, as Guernezey lies more without, towards the British Channel. From Jersey to Carteret or Port bail in Normandy the Traject is about six Leagues, and the Land being very high on both sides, Churches and Houses may be discerned from either Coast(GG) Latter Observations place Jersey in Forty-Nine Degrees ten Minutes of North-Latitude, and Two Degrees twenty Minutes of West-Longitude from the Meridian of London. In Length it exceeds not twelve Miles. The Breadth, where it is broadest (viz. at the two Extremities, for in the middle it is narrower) is betwixt six and seven. The Figure resembles an Oblong Square, or Parallelogram, the longest Sides whereof are the North and South, the narrowest the East and West. The North Side is exceedingly raised, and looks down on the Sea below, from Cliffs of forty and fifty Fathoms perpendicular height, which renders the Island generally unaccessible on that Side. The South Side is much lower, and in some Places level as it were with the Sea. () Thui, the Distance betwixt Jersey and Sark it futtr Leag...« less