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Crossag, or Monks Brkhje. 87St. John's, should be visited. If <strong>the</strong> <strong>to</strong>urist should ask <strong>to</strong>see <strong>the</strong> fairy goblet which Mr. Waldrou tells us {see page 13)was preserved in <strong>the</strong> church, he will be disappointed. Ifever it existed as part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> church plate, it disappearedlong since. But <strong>the</strong>re is a silver paten, used before <strong>the</strong>Reformation, <strong>and</strong> marked Ora pro nobis Sancte I/iipe, <strong>the</strong>fe^ss^jv^^r^rw^/'CROSSAO, OK monks' BRIDGE.church having been dedicated <strong>to</strong> St. Lupus, at one timeBishop <strong>of</strong> Troycs.A Avalk <strong>of</strong> about a couple <strong>of</strong> miles from Kirk Malew, or ashort railway ride from Ballasalla, enables us <strong>to</strong> reachCastle<strong>to</strong>wn,which once claimed <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong> metropolis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> isl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> wasformerly <strong>the</strong> residence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> OJovernor. Now, Douglas, as

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