The coast is one of the wildest belts of cliffs and rocklets; those eastward of a line from _Braye_ to _L’Etat_ are of ruddy grit, those westward of porphyry or hornstone. The eastern group, more exposed to disintegrating forces, assumes the columnar form, or that of hanging blocks, as at _Pendente_; but the porphyry of the west is of the wildest fashion. Between these strata is a narrow black belt of hornblende and quartz, running north and south across the islet. On the south-west point is _La Nashe Fourchie_, the cones of _Les Rochers des Sœurs_, and the secluded _Chaise de l’Emauve_, the _Lovers Chair_, a record of the passion of Jacquine Le Mesurier for one far lower than herself in rank. Of this romance the story and catastrophe are just as interesting as the common run of these love tales. Below the ridge of the _Giffoine_ there is the bold _Tête de Jugemaine_, and the fine bays of _La Platte Saline_ and _La Clanque_. On its outlying rock is still celebrated on the first Sunday in Lent, by youths and maidens, the ancient festa of Les Brandons, the wild gambols being peculiar to the islet. After dancing in the ring and kisses round, the corps de ballet return to Braye in procession, waving aloft their blazing firebrands, displaying all the wild gambols of Comus. The islet is most exposed; it is therefore _bracing_, yet the Cape _Alctris_ and other exotics thrive in the open air. About Longis and La Clanque a profusion of _fuci_ and _algæ_ is thrown on the shore. The _Haliotis_ and _Trochus shells_ lie on the beach, and myriads of the _strombiformis_ on the sterile ground. [Illustration: ALDERNEY, FROM BERHOU] In her course from England, whether in the open channel or in the Ortac, the boat closes on the _Caskets_. From the Weymouth course these lie off eastward. The water is twenty and thirty fathoms deep around these white sand rocks, which are about a mile in circuit, and have two landing-places, with steps in the rock, accessible in calm weather. The approach is perilous in a storm; and it was off the Caskets that in 1120 Prince William, the only son of Henry I., was drowned. The platform is walled and surrounded by three light-towers at triangular points. The sea block of _Ortac_ and the rocklet of _Berhou_ lie between the Caskets and Alderney, the latter rock being the resort of the Stormy Petrel, the Barbalot, and the burrowing bee, one of the most interesting little things in entomology. From this rock the peep at Alderney is picturesque. We are nearing the little Russell Channel, and surrounded by blocklets: another of the sister islets is looming in the distance. [Illustration: GUERNSEY] GUERNSEY: CÆSAREA—SARNIA.