10 THE GUERNSEY BREED 



the large number of sunken, jagged rocks, but also to the 

 rapid tides that flow in and out among the islands. At no 

 point between Guernsey and the coast of France does the 

 sea exceed 100 feet in depth, and the rush of the tides back 

 and forth through the English Channel, connecting with the 

 North Sea, coupled with the dense fogs that prevail at many 



Garden Rocks, Alderney. 



seasons of the year, all add to the dangers of navigation about 

 the islands. 



Alderney is only about one by three miles in extent, and 

 Sark is not far from the same size. 



The sea about the islands is, indeed, a graveyard for 

 ships. A diver who a few years ago went down among the 

 rocks at the southwest corner of Guernsey to locate the founda- 

 tion for the Hanois Lighthouse said he counted the wrecks 

 of over 50 vessels of all periods of time, from the Caesars 

 down to the present. I myself saw, in 1910, the wrecks of 



