Transcriber's Note This etext differs from the original as follows. The oe ligature is represented as [oe]. Minor inconsistencies of punctuation and capitalization have been corrected, as well as these definite typographical errors: amunition to ammunition; anemonies to anemones; betweeen to between; bear to bare; Chedder to Cheddar; considerble to considerable; Farenheit to Fahrenheit; heigth to height; millepedes to millipedes; mugworth to mugwort; pewets to pewits; pontentilla to potentilla; purpuerea to purpurea; venemous to venomous. Besides that the corrections mentioned in errata at the end have also been made. Because the author favored what are now seen as antiquated and eccentric spellings, many other questionable words have been left unchanged. Examples of these are goal for gaol, grove(d) for groove(d), encumberance, bason, chesnut, brocoli, transome. GUERNSEY PICTORIAL DIRECTORY AND STRANGER'S GUIDE. EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS WOOD-CUTS. BY THOMAS BELLAMY. [Illustration: Ivy-Gate.] GUERNSEY: H. BROUARD, STAR-OFFICE, BORDAGE-STREET. 1843. Entered at Stationers' Hall. PRINTED BY T. J. MAUGER. CONSTITUTION-STEPS. PREFACE. The 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 same: and here it is but just to remark that his daily memoranda during his temporary sojourn has been the chief source of his information, which, if deemed of sufficient importance to attract the attention of strangers, he solicits for it that candour, which he has some right to claim when he labours for the welfare of others, and is anxious only for the information of the visitor. It now only remains to render a fit apology for the inaccuracy of some of the wood-cuts, and the disproportion of others; which if duly considered, in connexion with the work, as being executed by one hand, together with the views, within the short space of five months, perhaps will be sufficient. However, the Author takes this opportunity of mentioning, that should he be so far encouraged as to issue a second edition, he trusts his friends and others will favor him with their drawings, especially upon such things appertaining unto the antiquity, architecture, botany and natural history of the island. Hitherto, at the suggestion of others, he laments having borrowed many of his views from by-gone works, which on being compared with the original of the day, have