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

——Guide to the Isle of Man.our tents. If we are located in the sea- front or in the lowerparts of the town, we shall wend our way along the Promenade,past the Iron Pier and Castle Mona, and up Bui-ntMill HiU, to the high road (literally so) from Douglas toRamsey. If we are living in its upper portion, we proceedalong Buck's Eoad and past the Industrial Home for DestituteChildi-en and Glen Crutchery, a lovely spot at alltimes of the year, and so reach the same spot. In eithercase, we shall travel along the road by which we retm-nedfrom Onclian at the close of our last ramble {see pp. 55-8).About a mile and a quarter to the north of the village, wecrossThe White Bridgeover the Bihaloe river, a small stream which affords somesport to the angler, but is more celebrated for the beauty ofthe scenery through which it flows than for its trout. Thegorse here attains proportions sufficiently large to be madeinto walking-sticks—indeed, the glen is well known to most" stickologists " in the island.Having crossed the White Bridge, and ascended the hillbej'ond it, we reach a spot where two or three roads meet,and where we make rather a long stay for refreshments (forwe are travelling by the public car) at the two HalfioayHouses to be found there. (We shall find as we progressthat there are two Halfway Houses on most of the roads inthe island, and that it is by no means unusual for the cardriversto 6to]D at both— "so as not to be partial, sir," thej,will tell you.) Descending the hill about a mile further on,when at its foot, and exactly opposite the fii'th milestonefrom Douglas, and therefore two miles from Laxey, a laneoa oiur right conducts us to a field in which is a reUc we arestrictly enjoined hy local advice not to miss seeing, whateverelse we " cut out "The Cloven Stones,two tall upright masses of stone, one of which is splitnearly into two. They are presumably the remains of acairn which, tradition asserts, was the grave of one of theearly British warriors from Wales, who in very remotetimes, before the arrival of the Scandinavian invaders, madeoccasional incursions into the island. If so, it is perhaps theoldest of aU the old memorials in Man. The stones appearto have formed a portion of one of those stone enclosures, sowell known to antiquaries. Mr. Wood, who wrote on the