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St. Owen's Bay, in the west of Jersey, consists of blown 

 sand, and bears evidence of more than one change of level. 

 Sea-sand covers peat-beds which seem to extend under the 

 sea, and, under the peat, sea-sand may also be traced ; this 

 seems to prove that the coast was once sea-covered, that the 

 sea retreated and again encroached. Corbiere Point, to the 

 south-west of Jersey, is very dangerous, fi'om scattered rocks; 

 the syenite is of very bright pink felspar, and very white quartz. 

 Several valleys run inland, fi'om the south coast ; they are 

 probably due to local glaciation. Flints which occur on the 

 sea-shore in some parts of Jersey are probably due to ballast 

 having been cast there, a large export trade in oysters having 

 formerly been carried on, the boats for which came in ballast. 



Amongst insects, the Jersey Tiger Moth is of interest, 

 though not a British species. The large shell, Mactra (jlauca, 

 though till recently so rare as not to be known in its live 

 state as British, was found in abundance on one part of the 

 coast by Mr. Lovett. Haliotis tuberculata is found on some of 

 the outlying rocks, though now very scarce in Jersey. 



Mr. Lovett exhibited a Star-fish measuring more than a 

 foot m diameter from tip to tip. Several Lizards are at home 

 in Jersey, including Lacerta viridis, whose markings vary so 

 much as to suggest the question whether there may not be 

 more than one species ; Lacerta agilis also is found ; Adders 

 are absent. 



During the great snowstorm of January, 1881, a pair of 

 Herring Gulls were driven on to a farm inland, and stayed 

 there, bringing up their young in a nest on the ground at the 

 foot of a hedgerow. The Golden Eagle and Great Bustard 

 have been killed in Jersey, and Hoopoes fi-equently occur. 



Ferns are very abundant in the banks of the lanes which 

 intersect Jersey in all directions. Scolopendrium vulgare is 

 quite a feature of the island. On the north coast Osmunda 

 regalis grows profusely, and Asplenium marinum is luxuriant. 

 A. Adiantum-nigrmn is specially abundant in the east 

 of the island, and A. lanceolatum in the west. The annual 

 fern, Gymnogramme leptophylla, is now very scarce. Asplejiium 

 ruta-muraria grows in the walls of the fort, and Ceterach 

 ojficinarum in St. Helier's. 



