Guernsey

Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, about 28 miles from the French coast and 65 from Start Point, has an area of 28 square miles. The climate is excellent, and large quantities of fruit and vegetables are exported, as also grey and some red granite. Port St. Pierre, the chief town, has a good harbour, a school founded by Queen Elizabeth with scholarships to Jesus, Exeter, and Pembroke Colleges, Oxford, a thirteenth-century church, a ladies' college, and a good market. Guernsey is the residence of a Lieutenant-Governor, etnd has a somewhat oligarchical constitution. The land is mostly held by "peasant proprietors," and the old Norman law prevails.