# The Channel Islands

Author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42495

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Channel+Islands+Morris&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If on a fine day we take our stand on one of the terraces, or battlements, of Mont Orgueil Castle--and there is hardly a pleasanter spot in Jersey in which to idle away a sunny summer afternoon--we shall realize more completely than geography books can tell us that the Channel Islands really constitute the last remnants of the ancient Norman dukedom that still belong to the English Crown. For there, across the water, not more than twenty miles away, and stretching from north of Carteret far southwards towards Granville and Mont St. Michel, is the long white line of the Norman coast itself--on a clear day it is even possible to make out the tall, twin spires of Coutances, half a dozen mile...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-channel-islands-42495/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-channel-islands-42495/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-channel-islands-42495/chapters/3/index.md)