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paths from one sea border to the other, from 

 the feeling that you are treading the streets, 

 lighted by lamps, of some respectable London 

 suburb, where small nursery gardens, and the 

 paddocks of the well-to-do who keep a Jersey 

 cow or two, flank the roadside. 



On a sunny day Guernsey, viewed from a 

 steamer, sparkles like a huge diamond set in a 

 sapphire sea. It is a place that approximates 

 very closely to the cultural conditions aimed 

 at by Prince Kropotkin in his fascinating book. 

 Fields, Factories, and Workshops. To me 

 personally, an island covered by glass-houses 

 makes no appeal, either industrially or aesthetic- 

 ally. It is certainly not life in the open air ; 

 and it gives one the feeling that this is factory 

 life under a subtle mask. 



Guernsey slopes to the north and not to 

 the south, as does Jersey, and frosts are more 

 common here than in the sister isle ; this, I 

 suppose, is why this island took to covering 

 itself with an armour which gave it a better 

 chance when it entered the lists in the com- 

 petitive struggle. 



Of 11,357 acres of cultivated land, hi- 



cluding Alderney and Sark, there are over 



6000 acres of holdings of over one acre 



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