Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11
A LOVELY BOAT RIDE.
Wakeman Has a Skipper Sail Him
Around Quaint Isle of Man.
A PEOPLE WORTHY OF STUDY.
seeing the Fashionable Watering Places Is
Seeing but Half
MANY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.l
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, Dec. 1.-You
will always have the Isle of Man clearest as
series of charming pictures in your men,
orv after you have sailed around the island.
1t is only little journey of 70 or 80 miles.
The steamers bring you from Douglas to
Douglas again in only six hours time.
Pleasanter still is it to engage q smart lit
tie craft and alone or with friends idle
along at will with wind or tide, gaining
much Manx color and feeling from your
grave and serious shippers tales, and COM
ing close to the fisher life of the countless
half hid coves and bays.
Besides, in this way with q good marine
glass you can scan every square foot of
Maxland. There is nowhere greater dis
tance than six or seven miles from highest
mountain peak to edge of circling sea. The
beautiful Typographical confguration of
the island is thus made memorable. From
mile or two at sea, off~Douglas, which
shines from its crescent bay with almost
the brilllancy of Naples, the chief mount
ain range shows at its best. 1t extends
three-fourths of the islands length, almost
q
every one of these pleasant Manx mount
aims is in full view.
Largest Water Whee! in the World.
Coasting to the north is found great
cairn called King Orry's grave, which ira
dition and dim Manx history assign to the
bones of the Danish Prince who mo-e than
thousand years ago gave the Manxmen
khaa
are the Laxey mines, the only ones of i'm
portance in Man, which possess the famous
Laxey>overshot water wheel, said to be the
largest in the world
Perhaps six miles farther to the north,
and your craft will be abreast of the
Maughold Head. 1t is weird and grand
old headland, and the vicinity has for ages
possessed reverential awe to all seafaring
folk. This has been due to the miracles
wrought at its holy well, and to the odor OF
sanctity left upon the place by st.
MaughoId. The latter was in his early life
q CAV and wicked Irish Prince. Converted
by the preaching of the good st. Patrick,
he determined to renounce the worlds He
put to sea in wicker boat, giving himself
up to the mercy ot' the winds and waves
! He was driven ashore here on the most in
accessible coast OF Man. The holy well or
fountain burst from the spot where he first
gained safe ground. Then followed the
wonderful conversion to Christianity from
paganism of the Manx people.
A Curious Voting Qualification.
The very walls of the, curious old ST.
| Maughold Church were built by this evan
gelist: and one of the strangest and most
| venerable crosses in Britain, the cross of
ST. Maughold, still standing in the an
cient chnrchySrd, was erected to commem-
orate the saints deliverance from the sea
and his conversion OF the Manx people
One side Of this remarkable relic contains
carving Of St. Maughold; another Of the
| lishment on a third side depicts the cruci-
fxion, to which is Joined the arms of Man
the three bent legs, with the brave motto:
"Whichever way thrown Cor cast), it
stsnds." The entire district is BIZ of un-
changeable antiquity, bound BY primitive