3-070-608 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in the Isle of Man, 1881. '1. Port St. Mary. 2. A Manx Girl. 3. The Sugar Loaf. 4. On the Road to St. John's. 5. Port Erin. 6. St. Ann. 7. Brada Head, Port Erin...Port Erin is the best place for a tourist to go to in search of the picturesque. Facing due west, this beautiful little harbour is guarded on the south side by the rocky base of the Mull Hills, on the north by a promontory, 390 ft. high, named Brada Head...Port Erin, however, now connected with Douglas by railway, is destined, we should think, to become a favourite watering-place, and its sands are well adapted for sea-bathing... Port St. Mary...[is] much frequented by the herring-boats...[Near] Spanish Head...[is a] display of lofty and precipitous cliffs...The cliffs here are nearly 400 feet above the sea. A detached and isolated fragment, "the Sugar Loaf," strikes the attention by its peculiar shape...[At] St. Ann's Head, the rocks are finely stratified, and of a slaty nature'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.