3-052-676 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Whitsuntide Holiday Sketches: Jersey, 1880. '1. Square in town of St. Helier's. 2. La Roque. 3. Shore end of submarine telegraph cable. 4. Mont Orgueil. 5. A Jersey lane. 6. Market in St. Helier's. 7. St. Helier's fishmarket...The market-place, for meat, poultry, dairy produce, fruit, and vegetables...is commodious and well supplied. The fish-market, in Castle-street, is still more plentiful; and conger-eel, which the untravelled Londoner can scarcely have seen before, is to be purchased [here]...cut into pieces as thick as the body of a large boa-constrictor...One or two of these sea-serpents, along with a couple of lobsters, are shown in the foreground...Something, likewise, of serpentine shape, but which is merely the two-fold extremity of a telegraph cable, which enables Jersey to communicate with England, is introduced into the Sketch of a recess among the cliffs...The stroll along the south-east coast, by St. Clement's and La Roque, especially at low tide when the rocks are exposed to view...affords a striking view of the wilder and more rugged aspects of nature...On the east coast is the romantic old ruined castle of Mont Orgueil,...perched on a granite rock that is connected with the land by a narrow ridge'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.