A
JOURNAL
KEPT IN THE
ISLE OF MAN,

GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE

WIND and WEATHER. and Daily OCCURRENCES, For upwards of Eleven Months:

WITH OBSERVATlONS ON THE

SOIL, CLIME, AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS

OF THAT ISLAND.

ALSO

ANTIQUITIES OF VARIOUS KINDS, NOW EXTANT THERE:

A Trait of the Manners and Customs, both general and peculiar, of the Inhabitants

An Account of their Harbours; great Usefulness of Douglas Harbour; Neglect, and Want of Repairs.

Description of their Noble Herring Fishery, &c.

TOGETHER WITH A LARGE

APPENDIX:

containing an Account of the ancient Forms of Government, and mild Administration of Justice, under the Noble House of Stanley; with Transcripts and Extracts from the ancient Statute Books of the ISLE

TOGETHER WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES and OBSERVATIONS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By RICHARD TOWNLEY, ESQ.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

WHITEHAVEN

PRINTED BY J. WARE AND SON.

Sold by T. CADELL, W. RICHARDSON, and R. BALDWIN, London ; D. PRINCE, Oxford; J. and J. MERRIlL, Cambridge; and the BOOKSELLERS in Mancheiter, Liverpool, Leeds, Kendal, Lancaster, &c. &c, &c--1791,

[note only part of volume 2 is scanned]

Contents

• pp 1-41
• pp 42-91
• pp 91-121
• ...
• pp174-218
• ...

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

ANECDOTE, (at Brussels) 154
Agriculture, general, 177 180
Boulogne register of deaths, 93
Boulogne journal, extracts from it, 9 40 29 52 70 91 110 133 147 163 196
Boulugne antiquities, (M. S.) extract from, it 153
Berlairnont convent, ceremony at, 74
Clerical lottery, 42
Court Ecclesiastical, 174
Caesar’s (Bobby) Ghost 79
Chundall Boirurn, plant, 116
Dogs, a great nuisance, &c. 13
Douglas harbour 29 .
Diseases, 96 101 113 208
Danish antiquity, 166 173
Dimensions of the island, 186
Female friendship, reflections on, 15
Fountains, their formation, 17
Fogs, 18 112 117
Fish, a curious one, 18
Fox day, 50
Fairies, 89
Fisheries, 53 103 181 186
Insolence of office, a notable instance, 200
Marine, &c. productions, 11 217
Manks funeral feast, 13
Man (Isle of)derhation outs name, 140 145 150
Maughold, Kirk, described, 172
Note upon Lord Orrery’s Note, 125 127
Natives, their character, 193
Novel-reading, its evil tendency, 151 154
Orrery’s (Lord) note on " Pliny to Calvisius," 123 125
Presentments, curious ecclesiastical, 43 and seqq.
Recruits, Irish for the East Indies, 119
Recluse in the Calf Isle, 87 88
Shipwrecks, 5
Seacome’s memoirs, 22 29
Spring, early appearance of, 48 108 114 132
Smuggling, 8z 95 133 163 196 ‘
Snow-storm, 1762, in February, 148
St. Patrick, his great power, 77 191
Visit to the western, &c. shores, 170
Whimsical manuscript history, (extracts from it) 71 76 84 104 140 151 196
Will-making, 122 130

APPENDIX.

Ancient History, Statutes, and Ordinances, 225 to 281
Modern Statutes and Ordinances, 281 to 293
Notes, 294 to 302.—Observations thereon 302 to 303
Origin, &c of the Fairy Creed, 303 to 317
Postscript, 318 to 322.