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

—%%g^roRT soDLiucK {8ce pp 51-2)SoTHE ROADS INTHE ISLAND.much for the town of Douglas and its surroundings.The walks we have enumerated, we need scarcelyremind om- readers, may be varied to almost any extent,as the tastes or the powers of endurance of thepedestrian dictate ; but we have described the chief objects ofinterest in the neighbourhood of the capital of the island, andany resident will willingly instruct a stranger as to the manypleasant variations he maj- make in his morning's walkindeed,they are, many of them, so patent to the ordinaryobserver that they scarcely need any pointing out. And nowwe will proceed further a-tield, and in a series of excursionsby rail or carriage, conduct our friends through the rest ofthe island, visiting, as we proceed, everything of unusualinterest in it. But though, for the sake of those who aretied to time, or whose ];)hysical strength will not permit oflong walks, we in eveiy case suppose oiir readers to haverecourse to conveyances of one kind or another, a stoutpedestrian may easily and without over-fatigi;ing himself,visit all the nooks and corners of this lovely isle in thecourse of an ordinary summer's holiday, and thus learn farmore of its beauties than his luxurious comrade, who ridesabout at his ease. And here we may note that good roads