The shores and bays are here flat and dull; as we leave the Race Course and pass _Portinger_ and _Long Port_, the upheaved blocks of gneiss increase in number and proportion. In _Cobo_ Bay stands _Le Grande Roche_; its veins of rose-coloured feldspar are unique. Here and there we have picturesque glimpses—one of the flat islet of _Lihou_, once hallowed by a priory built in the reign of Henry I., the grouping of cots and walls still in bold relief. The outlying rocklets are profuse between _Le Grand Havre_ on the north and the bold blocks of _Les Hanois_ or _Hanoreaux_ off _Pleinmont Point_, the west corner of the islet; they completely stud the bays of _Port du Fer_, _Saline_, _Long Point_, _Great Cobo_, _Vazon_, _Perelle_, _Le Rie_, _Rocquaine_, the widest bay in Guernsey. It was in Vazon Bay that the Spaniard Yvon de Galles descended and fought the battle in which the islander Jean de Lesoc performed feats of great valour. The site of this conflict is still named La Bataille. In contrast to this record of history is a fairy legend. In this bay of Vazon was “_Les Creux des Fées_,” a cavern haunted by the little people. Why and when and how we know not, but they conquered Guernsey! A sterile sameness reigns around Pleinmont Point and Mount _Herault_ and _Creux Marie_, a cavern 200 feet deep, and _Le Corbière_, until we reach _Point la Maye_. In the vicinity are the old village churches of _St. Peter_ in the Wood, of the æra of Henry II., 1167, and _Torteval_, still more ancient, of the æra of Henry I., 1130, which was erected by Philip de Carteret and dedicated to his Saint, Philip, after a vow during a storm in Rocquaine Bay. There is the menhir stone in a meadow by one of the lanes. [Illustration: LE FORÊT, GUERNSEY]