l6 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



of the Western Hemisphere by Columbus. Though 

 lying out of the great track of travel, they are yet in 

 the very centre of trade and civilization. Untrammelled 

 by legislation or custom-houses, they have free scope 

 for the development of their rich natural resources. 

 Too small to invite political demagogism, and too insig- 

 nificant for priestly domination, they flourish in even, 

 happy contentment, in the enjoyment of a climate, a 

 soil and a society completely free from the disturbances 

 which afflict and often destroy larger and more cele- 

 brated but not so free and favored communities." 



In the "Journal" of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England for 1859, vol. xx., is an essay by C. P. Le 

 Cornu, from which we make extracts on 



The Agriculture of the Islands of Jersey, Guern- 

 sey, Alderney and Sark. — "Jersey, the largest and 

 most easterly of the group, lies in latitude 49° N., 

 longitude 2^ 22' W., being at a distance of eighteen to 

 twenty miles from the nearest coast of France. In form 

 it is that of an irregular parallelogram, eleven miles 

 long: and five and a half miles wide. The surface of 

 the island is intersected by a continuation of valleys, 

 which, in general, run from north to south, gradually 

 increasing in depth and width as they approach the 

 south, until they in many places unite and form small 

 but fertile plains. On the northern side, the coast rises 

 abruptly above the level of the sea to a height ranging 

 from two hundred and fifty to four hundred feet, 

 whereas on its southern side it is in most places on a 



