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

9J: Guide to the Isle of Man.few pages back we mentioned a raid of Irish adventurers in1316, when Rushen Abbey was plundered. It was at Derbyhaventhese valiant freebooters landed. In August, 1G50,James, Earl of Derby, had a narrow escape in this bay. Hehad visited a ship lying there, and when on his return in aboat a piece of ordnance on board the ship was fired,Avhether by accident or evil intent is not known, and ColonelsWeston and Snayd, who were in attendance on him, andPhiHp Lucas, master of the boat, were killed. The earl, whowas sitting between the two colonels, escaped unhurt.A very agreeable walk, skirting the coast, can be taken tothe point where the Santon Burn runs into the sea, maldng itsway through a very picturesque ravine. The creek Cass-na-Awin, " foot of the waters," will be passed. Water caves andnatural arches of rock are well worthy of attention. Thecliffs near Saltrick are of great height, and some caution isnecessary. A few years ago one of the students at KingWilliam's College was killed by a fall from them.Near Santon is a stone circle, at an elevation of three hundredfeet above the sea. From this spot a grand view canbe obtained. The most notable object at Santon is in thechurchyard, the Great Broadstone, which marks the restingplaceof six clergymen of the name of Cosuahau, four ofwhom were successively vicars of the parish.The peninsula of Langness divides Derby llaveu fromCastletown Bay, and forms the western boundary of thelatter. At the north-west extremity a narrow causeway connectsit with St. Michaels Isle, a little island, on which arethe ruins of a chapel, apparently built in the eleventh century,with a large graveyard adjoining, sometimes used as a placeof interment for Roman Catholics. There are also remainsof a large circular fort, built by James, seventh Earl ofDerby. On one side of it is a turret, on which, during theherring-fishery season, a hght is displayed.Langness peninsula is a huge rock, very interesting togeologists, who like to get on it, and interesting, too, whenthe sea is rough, to mariners, who do their best to keep offit. It has been the scene of many shipwrecks. On the southeasternside the action of the waves has carved out of thestrata of red conglomerate grottoes, arches, pinnacles, andmany grotesque forms, thus described by a visitor ": Uncouthfaces, outvying the poppy-heads of mediaeval architec •ture, seem to be gi-inning dovn from every nook and cranny.Gigantic noses, gaping mouths, fashioned out of the bouldersand white quartz pebbles which protrude from the red mass