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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