28 Mr. Sutherland’s Account of Jersey. 
goslings adhering to pieces of decayed wood, some of the shape and 
size of mushrooms, others perfectly fledged, and ready to take 
wing. The same silly story prevails in certain parts of Scotland, 
where the solan goose is an annual visitant. 5 
The Romans, the pioneers of discevery and civilization in Eu- 
rope, conferred on Jersey the name of Cesarea, in honour of their 
leader ; and Cesar and Tacitus concur in describing it as a strong- 
hold of druidism, of which worship many monuments still exist. 
The aborigines were doubtless sprung from the Celtic tribes spread 
over the adjacent continent ; but the present inhabitants are uni- 
versally recognized as the lineal descendants of the warlike Normans, 
who, under the auspices of the famous Rollo, conquered and esta- 
blished themselves in the north of France in the ninth century. It 
was first attached to the British crown at the conquest ; and though 
repeated descents have been made on it by France during the many 
wars waged between the countries since that remote era, none of them 
were attended with such success as to lead to a permanent occupa- 
tion of the island. The islanders, proud of an unconquered name, 
and gratified to recollect that they originally gave a king to Eng- 
land, not England a king to them, have been always distinguished 
for fidelity to the British government , and their unshaken loyalty 
has, from time to time, been rewarded by immunities and privi- 
leges, highly conducive to their prosperity, and calculated to foster 
that spirit of nationality, which is invariably distinctive of a free 
people. They are exempted from those taxes which press heaviest 
on the English yeoman, and from naval and military service be- 
yond the boundaries of their own island. The lecal administration 
of justice is still regulated by the old Norman code of laws, and 
this circumstance is regarded by the natives as a virtual recogni- 
tion of their independence ; but strangers, when they inadvertent- 
ly get involved in legal disputes, have often cause to regret its ex- 
istence. In cases of assault, particularly the assaulting of a magis- 
trate, even though his official character be unknown to the offend- 
er, a severe punishment is generally awarded. We heard several 
instances of military officers, who had been guilty of raising an arm 
of flesh against jurats in night frolics at St. Heliers, narrowly es- 
_ eaping the penalty attached to this heinous infraction of the laws, 
—a penalty which would have left them maimed for life.* 
* “ Tn the days of Rollo,” says Faile in his History of Jersey, compiled in 
the 17th century, ‘‘ a custom obtained that in case of any encroachment and in- 
vasion of property, or of any other oppression and violence requiring immediate 
remedy, the party aggrieved need do no more than call upon the name of the 
Duke, though at never so great a distance, thrice repeating aloud Ha-Ro, &c. &ce. 
and instantly the aggressor was at his peril to forbear attempting any thing far- 
ther. Aa, or Ha, is the exclamation of a person suffering. Ro is the duke’s 
name abbreviated ; so that Ha-Ro is as much as to say, ‘ O! Rollo, my prince 
succour me.’ Accordingly, (adds Mr. Falle,) with us in Jersey, the cry is, 
‘ Ha-Ro a Taide, mon prince!’ And this is that famous Clameur de Haro, 
subsisting in practice even when Rollo was no more, so much praised and com- 
