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It is quite possible that Dutch or white Clover is not the right 

 Hibernian national emblem, though both the poets and the peo- 

 ple are content to use it till they know better, or can find a fitter 

 badge. Can our learned botanists and antiquarians tell us which 

 is the Scotch Thistle? 



Guernsey, Saric, etc. A Handbook for Invalids, Geologists, Na- 

 turalists, Arch(Sologists, and others. Guernsey : S. Barbet, 

 Printer and Publisher. 



This tract is issued by certain inhabitants of these islands, with 

 the view of drawing some part of pleasure-seekers, vacation tour- 

 ists, and other descriptions of travellers to these shores. 



Though it be of very modest appearance, with no pretensions, 

 and obtainable at small cost, yet the specialities of the islands 

 are briefly and lucidly described by great authorities, who possess 

 the inestimable advantage of adding several initials after their 

 legal and courtesy titles, as handles to their names. We will 

 not venture to specify these authors, but they are the authors of 

 papers on Climatology, Geology, Antiquities, Conchology, Ento- 

 mology, Botany, Piscatorianism, Zoophytes, Ornithology. The 

 last two subjects are by a fair authoress, who is rien du tout, as 

 the witty Frenchman said ; not even a member of the Linnean 

 Society. 



We wish, for our readers' sakes and our own, that all such in- 

 vitations as the present were prefaced by so clear directions 

 about the best way of reaching the places whereunto their au- 

 thors wish to allure the public whose purses are well filled or their 

 pocket-books well lined with something more negotiable than 

 drafts on the banks of elegance and fashion. 



The author or authors give a choice of routes, viz. first, by 

 London and South- Western Railway, and steam-packet from 

 Southampton, three or four times a week; second, by Great 

 Western, combined with packet service from Weymouth, three 

 times a week ; third, from London direct, by a steamer which 

 sails once every ten days ; fourth, there is a steamer every week 

 from Newhaven. 



On arriving at Guernsey, and having settled his several fares 

 to boatmen, porters, etc., the tourist is told where he may lodge. 



