LETTERS
FROM
THE ISLE OF MAN
IN 1846.

" Recollecting the difficulty I had to procure any previous intelligence
relative to the Isle of Man, and that the little I did obtain was, in a
great measure, erroneous, it occurred to me to arrange such informa-
tion as, by my personal observations, I had obtained. * * * It is
not my intention to attempt the character of an historian."
JEFFREY'S "Isle of Man."

" Mona-long hid from those who roam the main."
COLLINS.

"'Tis Mona, the lone! where the silver mist gathers,
Pale shroud whence our wizard-chief watches unseen-
O'er the breezy, the bright, the loved home of my fathers,
Oh, Mannin, my graih my cree ! Mannin veg veen."
ISLAND MINSTRELSY.

LONDON

SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.

1847.

[Contains very little, if anything, original - taken mainly from other guides - at times I'm not even certain the author, supposed to be Dr J. Platt, actually made the crossing to the Island]

CONTENTS

• Titlepage
• LETTER I. Notes on the Road-English Lakes-a Biographical Sketch 1
• LETTER II. Isle of Man-Douglas-Manufactures, &c.-Ancient Customs-Peel Castle 14
• LETTER III. Natural History-The Herring Fishery 20
• LETTER IV. Ecclesiastical History-Bishops of Man 31
• LETTER V. Courts of Law 43
• LETTER VI. Superstitions-Old Customs-Fairies, &c.-The Moddy Doe 50
• LETTER VII. Smugglers-Francois, Thurot and Yawkins 64
• LETTER VIII. St. Patrick- St. Maughold-Legend of St. Maughold, 70
• LETTER IX. Religious Sects: Wesleyan Methodists-Quakers,&c. 76
• LETTER X. Gleanings, &c. 82
• MANKS BALLADS, LEGENDS, &c. &c. 107
• APPENDIX . 139

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