See Letter XI . Jurby forms part of that flat track mentioned in page 40. The low lands I noticed were often free from rain, while the mountains were enveloped in storms, or hid in mizzling fogs. The weather, as in similar insular situations, is variable and windy. The late Colonel Townley scolds the island, as one of the most humid spots on the globe.
Short rains are frequent.
From the nature of the soil barley is the grain best suited for profit to the farmer. The generality of the lands are light loams, sandy, or sharp and gravelly. As a preparation for this, the turnip tillage is a crop so wonderfully profitable as to exceed by far in profit any other crop whatever, wheat not excepted. The church and vicarage house are both in a style of primitive simplicity. The former is sixty feet long and fourteen broad.