Category: Travel Writing
Either Ruskin or Wordsworth--I forget for the moment which--says somewhere that the English Lake Country begins where its mountains first become visible over the sands of Morecambe Bay. This, indeed, is a proper rebuke to the foolish modern tendency--so entirely subversive of...
Pedestrians who wish to go north-eastward from Peel to Ramsey have a choice of two very different kinds of way. The first of these is the great highroad, which, after the first...
5. CHAPTER VIt still remains to explore the south side of the island, commencing again at Peel. Here the chief interest centres in Castletown, with its famous Castle Rushen; in the splendid...
2. CHAPTER IIThere is hardly a pleasanter spot in the island from which to explore its beauties than Peel. Situated on its west coast, at a point sufficiently equidistant from its north and...
4. CHAPTER IVFrom Ramsey the visitor may travel seventeen miles south to Douglas, returning thence to Peel, if he like, by railway. At the very beginning, however, a digression should be mad...
1. CHAPTER IEither Ruskin or Wordsworth--I forget for the moment which--says somewhere that the English Lake Country begins where its mountains first become visible over the sands of Moreca...