The Argosy — page 395: what you’re looking at

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372 The Channel Islands. ceremony, or that in Sark they would be, like a white elephant, only too often a superfluous luxury. The Seigneurie is the only place in Sark of any importance, so far as we discovered ; the only spot in which one feels in some degree to have returned to the world. The remainder of the island may be said to have remained in a state of nature, and here lies one of its greatest charms. The house, picturesque, though not uniform in style, stands within grounds that may be described as a cultivated wilderness of great beauty. Tall Indian grasses and weeping trees reflect them- selves in silent pools; small avenues lend their shade and retire- vin ANE on e LATS \ 4 ie Set a t ; EL EtA 3: on) 4 a? leet F = *) rt 9 4 * “Sp, ya Ns te Jat, + Ulla ae “4 .. es . . Ise. <= ~ , lr Ht AR ae A y > Te SS A Ue * Oh el AS Bary Ley tee eee is _yliig lear taa ua eee a Le . a 3 ay Sad ‘% . 744, fs v= rier “, - Might, ‘ 7 SS, ae . a 4 é ~% ® or A ws ‘ Ls = -2 ‘ —_— YP 35 he ene ¢ , Lj ’ THE SEIGNEURIE, ment ; an absence of set walks, straight paths and planned flower beds delights the wanderer; a few tropical plants and the waving grasses so common to the Channel Islands, and so graceful, inspire the imagination with something of an eastern glow. Fruit trees and flowers were there, but their primness and regularity are concealed behind high walls. This no doubt is necessary in a small island, where the influence of the sea and the fury of the gales would soon put an end to all tender and unprotected plants. For the Seigneurie is not far from the sea. It is in itself a small paradise within the larger paradise of Sark. But Sark itself is small, being about three miles long by a mile and a half broad. Yet it is so diversified, possesses so much that is interesting, has such deep valleys and declivities, an abundance of Eomichbooks.co