| Show the islo isle of man there is a patch of laud land in the sto stormy my irish sea SOA called the isle of man about which whick many travelled and un travelled americans know scarily more moie than its name namo on a sunny lay day the highlands of ulster in ireland and of galloway in in scotland are aret visible from its western shore and from the summit of elf mountain nin lin I 1 buy busy little england is seea sepa fretting iu in the golden haze far across the sea ft is not much grek greh gre ater Lter than staten island in area aud and an 14 ambitious C californian might look upon it as ai a fair sized ranch but small as it is A mere speck on the map of greak great grea britain it has hai a government of pt jo its own a house of parliament a people infused with noble blood and a chril j ling and eventful history haw thorne found round it out while he was a consul at liverpool pooi pool and has haa praised ed it in the delc delicious luus lous probe 0 of f his en glide note noto nj books 11 Scott beott gathered material for peveril of fhe the peak from its romantic scenery and legends ami and wordsworth comme coin coln memo ivio rated a sil sll sit to it buoi inca sonnet but it is not il iti these few lew literary associations ciati clatl citations ons that its chief interest lies the hi tory of its varied fortunes and the ancestry of its superstitious people have a peculiar pecullar interest dating datin ai they do from the rilling thrilling tb age ago when the norsemen norseman Nors Nor einen semen were mighty in the west in its greatest length the loin inland d measures about thirty three miles and in its greatest breadth about thirteen its ltd circumference 1 is s venty seventy five miles excluding the sl of the bays and it contains bains a superficial area of about acres or square miles enjoying thu tha benefits of tiie tile t he gulf stream the climate ii i singularly mild and genial and there are aro few oth other er places in in the world where the difference between wi winter liter titer and summer is so blight slight the meau temperature of s ummer summer is u bally about deg de t y of winter deg and of or spring p 44 70 d deg eg there is plenty of ra rain nain in but very little snow or frost r fuchsius fuchsias Fuch uc gislas sias grow to the hight of ten or twelve feet out of doors and are found J a mass of crimson blossoms in the tho poorest gardens As to the health ful fui bulnes nes of the climate you should seethe see the tho native girls rosy checked cheeked plump active aud and gleeful and the men who are as stalwart muscular and handsome a race as ever breathed sea air for tiie iho most part the coast is rocky and wild hoar with the foam of the turbulent sea that surrounds it and indented with capacious lia iia harbors arbors and innumerable creeks but in the north the land sinks into a low pasturage and meets the water on the glistening pebbles of a smooth beach the interior includes nearly every kind of natural scenery heather clad balsamic bamie hills pla plains ins as richly cultivated as the downs of surrey wide reaches of prickly gor gorso e as drear as yorkshire moors and the prettiest ore of cascades as cades the enchantment of 1 northern N rort hern bern land dwells in its subdued light and on its mist crowned h heights e h t y the vikings are fishermen now and all the grest treasure from liverpool sail into the west without a thought or wish of evil toward them sleepy are perched on the cliffs where once the beacon fires of the wreckers allured many a goodly ship to her doom in tho the bays where the tho i hid bid themselves fly tho the white sails of pleasure boats so great are the changes change 9 wrought by time that even the spell of mist worked by the tho wizard king has been broken and the summer has its share of cloudless days the invaders ai are aro not romans scots or scandinavians na nav lans ians but aggressive tourists bearing knapsacks instead of eagles and walking sti sticks clis instead of J javelins ave avo these confront you in nearly every part of the island and the primitive character of the natives is fast under the influence ot of tho the t town 6 wn manners which the visitors bring with them many of the superstitions superstitious have been laughed away and hospitality has acquired a fair money value I 1 do not mean to ay say that there are no more generous hearts and simple minds in mona an old f is hermans wire wife wl ro entertained me with wish flour bread salt nish lish and ten tea in her hub hut at creg y indignantly thrust me out of the only door in the tho t lie house when lien llen the meal was ended because I 1 offered her a shilling there are arc not a few honest folks too who yet set have havo a steadfast faith falth in mermaids and fairles fairies william JU U hiding in harpere Harp cre magazine |
