Mr. Sutherland’s Account of Jersey. 29 
The introduction of Christianity, and final extirpation of idola- 
try, is said to have occurred in the sixth century. In the latter 
days of the reign of popery, Jersey formed part of the diocese of 
Coutances in Normandy, where the ancient records of the island 
were deposited ; but at the Reformation, in the reign of Elizabeth, 
it was attached to the see of Winchester,—an annexation, however, 
merely nominal, for the island is in reality exempt from the domi- 
nion of the church of England. The inhabitants are a well-dis- 
posed and peaceable race, but not particularly distinguished for en- 
thusiasm in religion. The peasantry are orderly and industrious ; 
the merchants enterprising; and the seamen, a numerous class, 
hardy and adventurous. ‘The aggregate of the people live more 
after the French manner than the English ; that is, they substi- 
tute fruit and vegetables, in a great measure, for animal food, and 
eyder for ale. Neither men nor women are distinguished for per- 
sonal beauty, though we noticed several very comely dames in our 
perambulations ; and notwithstanding the boasted purity of their 
descent from the ocean-roamers of the north, they have many of the 
anomalous features of a mixed race. 
ART. V.—Description of a Species of Worm found in the Frontal 
Sinus of a Sheep. By WituiaAmM Ruinp, Member of the Royal 
Medical and Royal Physical Societies of Edinburgh ; Author of 
a Treatise on Intestinal Worms of the Human Body. 
Turoveu the kindness of my friend, W. A. F. Browne, Esq. I 
have been favoured with a specimen of a worm found by him, about 
two months ago, in the frontal sinus of the common sheep, (ovis 
aries.) 
This worm, of which a representation is here given, is a species 
of the Pentastoma, Ord. III. Genus XVII. of Rudolphi. Five 
mented upon by all who have written on the Norman laws. <A notable example 
of its virtue and power was exhibited about 170 years after Rollo’s death, when a 
private individual and subject boldly stood forward to oppose the interment of 
‘William the Congueror’s body in the great abbey of St. Stephen at Caén, because 
the grave had been dug on a spot of ground which had been his father’s property, 
and for which he had never received an equivalent. ‘‘ He who oppressed king- 
doms by his arms,” said he, addressing the funeral train, ‘* has been my oppres- 
sor also, and has kept me under a continual fear of death. Since I have outlived 
him who injured me, I mean not to acquit him, now he is dead. The ground 
whereon you are going to lay this man is mine; and I affirm that none may in 
justice bury their dead in ground which belongs to another. If, after he is gone, 
force and violence are still used to detain my right from me, I appeal to Rollo, 
the founder and father of our nation, who, though dead, lives in his laws. I take 
refuge in those laws, owning no authority above them.” This fearless speech, 
uttered in presence of Prince Henry, son of the deceased monarch, afterwards 
King Henry I. was not made in vain. The Ha-Ro was respected, the grievance 
redressed, and the conqueror laid quietly in his grave. 
