Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-11


called the ''Burragh.r Themost pritni.
tive of the Manx peasantry a,v found
hero; and Celtic abilities are most bro.
nonneed. In more than hundred
tiny hamlets like the "uald clachansn
Of tho Scotch Highlands YOU viii find
fully nine-tenths possessing the Celtic
arpelntlve Ball itown.l as Ballavarkish,
Ballaheauey and tho like
All along down tho west coast your
Interest will hc divided between
eliinpsos Of strange old Mnnx hanlots
popping from the mountain bases whore
flashes OF foaming streams tromhlc like
the g0rac tops upon the hills, with tho
splendid mountain views hchlnd and
above, and the plainly discerned Irish
cnast whore the Mourne mountains
through tho distance cOverwith purple
their 0morald grc0n, But at last hero
il ancient Pool, Thisto head and st.
Patrieks isle. Miles OF white strand
thread along thou coast TO
the brown old church upon
the rocks, like shining way OF
faith leading unial,erinely 20 II datelcss
antiquity No cobwcb lover will DO
disgruntled that " broom OF progress
has moaarniged Peel. Everything Il
old and mellow aud dim Tho hundreds
Of fishing craft iormiug with their old
masks antique traeery bStore the town
seem 10 belong 70 forgotten aye
Dark are its walls, marrow It's streets,
tiny Us windows, grave and silont its
people ds
Gray and old, and moro inrbidding
than all else is lis onco mighty castle
at the harbor mouth, Il stands on Pat
riclNs Holm, or St Particles leland,
seven acres In extent, venerable. haunt
ed and hallowed linllOwod and ven.
cradle, Tor 81. Patrick himself raised
the hcghniugs OF tho church ON whose
site the half ruins OF Il great cathedral
are now found, Haunted because Of in-
cXprcssihle cruelties and foul murders
In crypts and castle here, Through
these lofty pillars. bending arches, hot
low galleries. and by those dlsmantlcd nj
tars, ono eau stride from the nineteenth
70 the hnh centuryi In the saddening
echoes OF the sca-calls he can hear tho
moaplngs Of imprisoned Eleanor, the
curses Of STANLEY, the triumphant "Al.
lululah y Of Gcrmhins that put 10 route
the SaNons IN the bloody Flinishiro
fields, Haunted, more than all else TO
Mainland mind because It Is the abid-
ing place lor all time OF that most ter
rlhlO OF MHnN powore Of darkness, the
blnok and dreadful Moody DhooN
From Peel 70 Port Erin Is u match
lessiy Wild aud romnntic reach OF coast
There is scarcely b,calS iu the lofty,
PERCEPTIONS wall. And what grand
/ spot IL this Port Erin and onylrons.
| The MnnN mountains rise solemn and
dark behind. The bay Is almost u
landloclied cove. Tremendous liraddn
Head rising 900 feet sheor from tho
sea, shuts out the bowling northern
iompcsis Another heodland sweeps
around aud up from the south. Once
! the ancient port was rich from coin.
MERGE with Ireland. Now II is dmlt
antique, sleeping within q bod OF myr-
tie. The fashionable have found " out
aud soon another gay and brilliant
Palermo Will hide us ancient walls.
Nov you are sppd around the Calf Of
Man, Bolder, graudor, more grcwsomn
still arc It's vast sea walls and fearful
| chasms, Reslstlcss tides gnuw nt It's
base. The angry spUmo " flung To ihl
| topmust crngs. u " dcsolato Of human
| life. Millions of sea fowls wheel and
shrek uboye H. But one other spot
have seen NO typical OF furious dosola'
tlou Whore the Arran island crngs
receive Tho cCascloss pOundlnpt OF the
| Atlantic, aud the thunders OF the ever
lasting bnttlc are 10 great that oven the
sea gullh shrlck lssoundlosai IL another
such amecdlcus place.
rnostinv alnng tbe oastorn eborh
ogoin. nrst Spanish iiood 4 pnssod nud
,heu port "a Mn,,v B.tyrsn thrsn h
a tvnica Nany hamlet called Greg.
n,itb IA IN iittin olustor AZ epnttirlns
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