Strangers Guide To The Island Of Jersey PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: weight British, is about equal to one hundred and three and a half Guernsey pounds. Liquors of every kind are measured by the pottle and gallon: the gallon contains two hundred and fifty-two cubic inches. Barley, oats, pease, and other grain (wheat excepted) are measured, either heaped in the wheat bushel or measured in a bushel containing nearly the same quantity, strike measure. This bushel is two pints -rVr the insular measure smaller than the Winchester bushel; it contains sixty-seven pints, island measure; two thousand one hundred and ten and a half cubic inches; and serves also for salt, lime, and sea coal, the latter only is heaped. No measurable article can be offered for sale in the island, under a severe penalty, by any other than the wheat bushel, containing fifty four pints, and barley bushel, of sixty-seven pints, above mentioned. These, before they are used, must be stamped by an officer appointed for that purpose. The revenue of the island is about nine thousand pounds, per annum. CHAPTER VI. Mineralogy of Guernsey. The mineralogy of Guernsey has been described with considerable skill by Dr. Mac Culloch, a native of Guernsey, and a scholar well known by many learned productions. The isle of Guernsey, says this gentleman, is almost entirely of granatic formation. The southern division consists entirely of gneiss, and the rocks which form the northern part, exhibit various kinds of granite, or granitel. The rock on which Castle Cornet is built, is a gneiss, often approaching so near to granite as to render its place in a nomenclature doubtful. It is every where crossedand intersected by veins of quartz, of trap, and of felspar, curved and mixed in various ways, but tending, on the whole, to the north, or north-east. More rarely, there are found...