LEECH'S
GUIDE and DIRECTORY
of the
ISLE OF MAN
ITS
Scenery, History, Popular Customs, &c

MANCHESTER
F.LEECH, PRINTER & PUBLISHER, 50 STRETFORD ROAD, HULME

 

 INDEX.

     

PAGE
   

Directory

  
   

Preface

7

CHAP.

I.

-General Description of Ramsey as a Watering Place its Capacious Bay, &c.

26
 

II.

Ballure Glen, and Albert Tower

15, 19
 

III

Glen Aldyn, its Cresent Shape and Scenery,

21
 

IV

Snaefield

23
 

V

Lezayre, the Garden of the Island

23
 

VI

Maughold, its Venerable Church

33
 

VII

Point of Ayre Lighthouse

88
 

VIII

Kirk Andreas and North Baroole

41, 42
 

IX.

-Kirk Michael Church, Bishop Wilson's Tomb,Runic Crosses, Bishop's Court, Ecclesiastical History, Ballaugh

44
 

X.

Tynwald Hill and Peel Castle, how to Visit

57
 

XI.

Laxey, its prosperous Lead Mines, Laxey Wheel,Works,.

62
 

XII

Manx Herring Fishery

67
 

XIII

-Trout Fishing, where to go,

74
   

Boating and Fishing

79
 

XIV

Civil History, Stanley Succession,

81
   

Legends,.

91
 

XV

Douglas, its Town and Neighbourhood

95
 

XVI

Castletown, Ballasalla, Rushen Abbey, Calf of Man

99
 

XVII.

Boating, Conchology, Natural History

104
 

XVIII.

Civil Government, List of Governors, Height of Mountains, Civil Courts, Population

112
   

National Anthem, " Mollacharane," and Original Manx

122
   

Hymn for all Nations, and Manx Translation

126
 

XIX.

Popular Customs and Superstitions

128
   

Duchess of Gloucester, and Peel Castle

142
 

XX

-Trade, Commerce, and Agriculture

155

Frears Leech, the unusual first name was his mother's maiden name, was for a brief period a printer in Ramsey and produced, in 1847, the one-off edition of The Ramsey Times to commemorate the visit of Prince Albert to Ramsey. He later moved to Manchester.

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