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A DAY IN ALDERNEY. 37
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VII.—A DAY IN ALDEKNEY. ¦ p
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A Day In Alderney. 37
A DAY IN ALDERNEY . 37
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¦ »~ Have have visited any of Paris our readers Rome been Venice to Alderney Naples ? some Doubtless may have the majority _exjDlored
, , , ; few the rocky coasts ted b of love Norway of adventure and the low or the calm pursuit canal of s of art Holland , may have ; a y
ventured Bedouin , promp into Arabs the interior but who of has Spain been , or to wandere little , d rock among y , insi the gnificant tenfcs of ,
barren Alderney ; ? I will venture to say that very few even of those who have rested a while on the inviting little island of Guernsey , taken that
little or visited quaint the walk more of a p mile icturesqu inhabitants long e in precincts Sark of , ( that whose of Jersey lion , is or a isle miniature ) have
thoug defile ht very it worth dear their to the pains to cross the strip primitive of sea that , divided them from the long grey line which they were told fortifications was Alderney .
u Nothing to see in Alderney ! Nothing but I"
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/37/
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