Alderney (Al`derney) , one of the Channel Islands, 3 or 4 m. long by 2 broad, celebrated for its breed of cows; separated from Cape de la Hogue by the dangerous Race of Alderney.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aldehyde * Al`dershot