IN THIS SERIES CAMBRIDGE CANTERBURY CHANNEL ISLANDS CLYDE, FIRTH OF ENGLISH LAKES ISLE OF MAN ISLE OF WIGHT LONDON, ROMANCE OF OXFORD STRATFORD-ON-AVON Leamington and Warwick THAMES TROSSACHS NORTH WALES WESSEX WINDSOR AND ETON PUBLISHED BY ADAM & CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQ., LONDON [Illustration: The Waterfall in Dhoon Glen] _Beautiful Britain_ _The Isle of Man_ _By Joseph E Morris_ [Illustration: Landscape] _London Adam & Charles Black_ _Soho Square W 1911_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE ISLAND AS A WHOLE 5 II. CONCERNING PEEL 10 III. TYNWALD HILL AND THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE ISLAND 18 IV. FROM RAMSEY TO LAXEY 40 V. CASTLETOWN AND THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ISLAND 48 INDEX 64 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. THE WATERFALL IN DHOON GLEN _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. DOUGLAS BAY (A MIDSUMMER NIGHT) 9 3. MAUGHOLD CHURCH 16 4. A BREEZY MORNING AT POINT OF AYRE 25 5. RAMSEY BAY LOOKING NORTHWARDS 27 6. SULBY GLEN AND SNAEFELL 30 7. GLEN MAYE 32 8. THE CALF OF MAN FROM SPANISH HEAD 43 9. PORT ST. MARY 46 10. CASTLETOWN AND CASTLE RUSHEN 49 11. PEEL HARBOUR AND CASTLE 56 12. BRADDA HEAD, PORT ERIN _On the cover_ THE ISLE OF MAN CHAPTER I THE ISLAND AS A WHOLE