
Guernsey pictorial directory and stranger's guide
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This book also consists of- active table of contents- author's biography- transcriber's note- illustrationsThe Guides hitherto tendered the public, having in some measure fallen short of furnishing the Stranger with a just notion of the island and its interior beauty, from want of illustration and leisure for natural observation; the Author of the following desultory pages, flatters himself by simplicity of arrangement, utility of matter, and a few tail-pieces strongly illustrative of native scenery, to introduce a bearing towards the and here it is but just to remark that his daily memoranda ...
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- GUERNSEY PICTORIAL DIRECTORY AND STRANGER'S GUIDE.
- EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS WOOD-CUTS. BY THOMAS BELLAMY.
- GUERNSEY: H. BROUARD, STAR-OFFICE, BORDAGE-STREET. 1843. Entered at Stationers' Hall. PRINTED BY T. J. MAUGER. CONSTITUTION-STEPS.
- PREFACE.
- GUERNSEY
- DIRECTORY.
- Academies.—
- Agreements and Rents.—
- Andrew's Church, St.—
- Antiquities.—
- Banks and Bankers.—
- Barracks.—
- Bats—
- Beggars—
- Birds—
- Boarding Houses and Lodgings.—
- Boatmen.—
- Bread.—
- Butter.—
- Carts.—
- Castles.—
- Câtel Church.—
- Cemeteries.—
- Chapels.—
- Cheese.—
- Climate.—
- Clothes.—
- Coals.—
- College, the.—
- Consuls.—
- Court, Royal.—
- Cows.—
- Cyder.—
- Diseases.—
- Doctors and Physicians.—
- Donkeys.—
- Doubles—
- Eggs.—
- Exciseable Articles.—
- Fish.—
- Fish Market, the—
- Farms—
- Flies.—
- Flowers.—
- Fogs and Mists.—
- French Women.—
- Frogs.—
- Frost and Snow.—
- Furniture.—
- Gardens.—
- Gas.—
- George, Fort.—
- Goal.—
- Herbs and Medical Plants.—
- Hay.—
- Horses.—
- Hospital.—
- Inns and Hotels.—
- James's Church, St.—
- John's Church, St.—
- Land.—
- Letters.—
- Light-house.—
- Libraries.—
- Manufactories.—
- Margaret Church, St.—
- Martellos.—
- Martin's Church, St—
- Meat—
- Meat Market, the—
- Mechanics' Wages—
- Militia.—
- Mills.—
- Miscellaneous Societies—
- Missionary Societies.—
- Money.—
- New Ground—
- Newspapers—
- Omnibuses—
- Oxen—
- Parsnips—
- Passports.—
- Peat—
- Peter-Port Church, St;—
- Peter-in-the-Wood Church, St—
- Pools—
- Porters.—
- Poultry—
- Religions.—
- Reptiles and Snakes—
- Rivers and Brooks.—
- Roads—
- Ruins—
- Sampson's Church, St—
- Saviour's Church, St—
- Shells.—
- Shoes.—
- Shops, French Toy and Fancy.—
- Shooting.—
- Societies, Bible.—
- Spirits, Wines, and Cordials.—
- States—
- Taxes—
- Thieves—
- Tithes—
- Tonnage Dues.—
- Torteval Church—
- Trees—
- Valle Church, the—
- Vergée.—
- Vraic—
- Weights and Measures.—
- Wheat, Oats, and Barley.—
- Wood for firing.—
- THE STRANGER'S GUIDE; OR, WALK ROUND THE ISLAND.
- FIRST DAY's EXCURSION
- SECOND DAY's EXCURSION.
- ERRATA.
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