Excerpt from An Account of the Island of Jersey: Containing a Compendium of Its Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military History; A Statement of Its Polity, Law, Privileges, Commerce, Population, and Produce; A Survey of the Public Buildings, Antiquities, and Natural History; Together With Some Details Respe Jersey, though an ancient appendage to the Eu glish crown, has hitherto been comparatively but little known. Extensive in foreign commerce, its mercantile connexion with the mother country is confined to a few ports in Great Britain and Ireland. It is now become a considerable military depot, and its former defences have recently been greatly strengthened and increased. Jersey, considered abstractedly, appears to be a very minute and uninteresting portion of the widely ex tended British empire; and were its importance to be estimated by this rule, a particular account of it would be a presumptuous claim to public notice: but if we turn our eyes from so contracted a medium, and View it with a proper reference to-its locality, the small speck dilates, -and the apparently insignificant Spot assumes imposing attitude on the European theatre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.