As daily alterations are making in the various departments of Trade, together with many local improvements in the Channel Islands, it is a matter of primary importance to the Stranger to have an accurate detail, according to the present existence of things, without being compelled to wade through a mass of obsolete and irrelevant matter.
The leading feature of this Work is to give within its limits as much crude matter as the space will permit, admitting nothing trivial, and omitting nothing which the scientific traveller may wish to ascertain. The Publisher has endeavoured to give in detail the history of Jersey from the earliest period ; its manners, laws and observances, not generally known ; together with the Geology and Mineralogy of the Island ; its public Buildings, Trade, Commerce, Manufactures and Antiquities : to which is added, a complete Commercial Directory. In writing this Guide the Publisher availed himself of the best works, from which he has gleaned much valuable information, viz., from the late Rev. P. Falle's History, Captain Lyte's and Doctor Heylins Compendium, and also from Le Lievre's Guide.
