Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man ...

88 Guide to iJie Me of Man.the scat of the legislature and the law courts, and the officialresidence of the highest official, has superseded the old townat the spot Avhere the graceful Silver Burn pours its clearwaters into the sea. The town is pleasantly situated andregularly built, with a stone bridge over the Burn. Theharbour, accessible to foot passengers by a drawbridge, hasbeen recently improved at a cost of £4,500 ;and there is astone pier 200 yards long.The Toini Hall, in Arbory Street, is a handsome building,with a large room for public meetings, concerts, etc. In themarket-place is a monument to the memory of GovernorMALEW CHURCH.Smelt, who occupied his office for twenty-eight years, anddied in 1832. Near it is a very noticeable sun-dial, a solidball of stone with thirteen dial faces, each marked differently.The Castletown peoi)le say that the time can be ascertainedby the light of the moon, as well as by that of the sun. Thechurch, St. Mari/'s, built in 1826, occupies the site of anolder church erected by Bishop Wilson in 1G98. A smallsquare building near the castle gates was formerly thevlace whore the House of Keys assembled. There arc aWesleyan Chaj^el, in Arbory Street, a Primitive MethodistChapel, in Hope Street, and a Boman Catholic Chapd, on tlieGreen. There are two hotels, the Oeorge and the Union,