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College Musings.
western part of the island , " sniffing the morning air , " redolent of coolness and fragrance , and stopping at intervals to admire some pretty villa peeping out from its woodland enclosure . We were " congenial spirits , " and nature had cast us in the same mould for similarity of taste and feeling . If he live , and ever reads these by-gone reminiscences of our pleasant travel , he will learn how much I valued his too brief acquaintance . He will remember how the execrable roads here and
there excited our mutual ire ; then again , how a sudden turn called forth our simultaneous commendation of the wild and picturesque scenery ; how we devoutly examined some little indigenous plant , whose beauties hidden to the common eye lifted our admiring souls from " Nature to nature ' s God ! " And , perhaps , it was as pleasant to him as it was to me , our literary and philosophical converse . We got to Castle Town about 8 o ' clockwhere we were lad to indul
, g ge our hungry appetites in breakfasting . It is a dull uninteresting place , and excepting its very antiquated Castle , the theatre of several local acts of petty tyranny in " days of olden time , " and now the jail of the island , possesses nothing worthy the tourist ' s notice . As our present destination was Peel Town , situated on the western side of the island , twelve or fourteen miles farther on , we had recourse to the map of the guide-book I had purchased at Douglas Town—an indispensabluseful
y little manual—to chalk out our " line of march . " Defraying our moderate breakfast-bill , therefore , onward we proceeded . The track from hence for many miles is very dreary , through a sterile and rocky country , looking naked of vegetation , and chilling in its general aspect , till you approach a pass called Hamilton Bridge . The country then
assumes a cultivated appearance , undulating with hill and dale , and dotted with neat white kirks , as the churches are called there , although it is an Episcopal establishment , with their rural burial grounds . The Manx people are mostly a religious race , and great care and attention is bestowed upon their places of worship . The memory of their eminently good Bishop , Wilson , is not faded , and the influence of his truly pastoral acts is observable to this day . The dust and heat had half broiled us in crossing a mountainous ridgewithout a shelter of kind from the
, any scorching rays of the sun ; and it was with exhilirated spirits that we hailed in the distance a road-side ca & een , and quenched our parching thirst with a draught of the Irish landlady's small-beer ; while her national vivacity and shrewd garrulity diverted our attention for a brief half hour from the fatigue we endured . In pursuing our route my companion enlightened me upon the reasons of the duke ' s disposing of his inheritance here , and thus discoursing , we overtook a group of the
natives '' decked m holiday suit , on their way , as they informed us , to St . John ' s fair ; and as this place lay on our road , we joined company , amusing and instructing ourselves by asking them a number of questions connected with their agricultural pursuits , to which they gave us very intelligent replies , exhibiting none of the clownish stupidity or rudeness so generally conspicuous among the boors of other regions . Indeed , they were most necessary interpreters to us of the use and purposes of a small machine driven ba water-wheelto which our attention was
y , attracted hy its noise , like that of a fulling mill . The object itself , without understanding at first its peculiar benefits , deserved the regard of the searcher and lover of the picturesque . The situation where the useful little machine was built merited pencilling . It was down in a silent glen , above which we were wending our footsteps , forming a
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College Musings.
western part of the island , " sniffing the morning air , " redolent of coolness and fragrance , and stopping at intervals to admire some pretty villa peeping out from its woodland enclosure . We were " congenial spirits , " and nature had cast us in the same mould for similarity of taste and feeling . If he live , and ever reads these by-gone reminiscences of our pleasant travel , he will learn how much I valued his too brief acquaintance . He will remember how the execrable roads here and
there excited our mutual ire ; then again , how a sudden turn called forth our simultaneous commendation of the wild and picturesque scenery ; how we devoutly examined some little indigenous plant , whose beauties hidden to the common eye lifted our admiring souls from " Nature to nature ' s God ! " And , perhaps , it was as pleasant to him as it was to me , our literary and philosophical converse . We got to Castle Town about 8 o ' clockwhere we were lad to indul
, g ge our hungry appetites in breakfasting . It is a dull uninteresting place , and excepting its very antiquated Castle , the theatre of several local acts of petty tyranny in " days of olden time , " and now the jail of the island , possesses nothing worthy the tourist ' s notice . As our present destination was Peel Town , situated on the western side of the island , twelve or fourteen miles farther on , we had recourse to the map of the guide-book I had purchased at Douglas Town—an indispensabluseful
y little manual—to chalk out our " line of march . " Defraying our moderate breakfast-bill , therefore , onward we proceeded . The track from hence for many miles is very dreary , through a sterile and rocky country , looking naked of vegetation , and chilling in its general aspect , till you approach a pass called Hamilton Bridge . The country then
assumes a cultivated appearance , undulating with hill and dale , and dotted with neat white kirks , as the churches are called there , although it is an Episcopal establishment , with their rural burial grounds . The Manx people are mostly a religious race , and great care and attention is bestowed upon their places of worship . The memory of their eminently good Bishop , Wilson , is not faded , and the influence of his truly pastoral acts is observable to this day . The dust and heat had half broiled us in crossing a mountainous ridgewithout a shelter of kind from the
, any scorching rays of the sun ; and it was with exhilirated spirits that we hailed in the distance a road-side ca & een , and quenched our parching thirst with a draught of the Irish landlady's small-beer ; while her national vivacity and shrewd garrulity diverted our attention for a brief half hour from the fatigue we endured . In pursuing our route my companion enlightened me upon the reasons of the duke ' s disposing of his inheritance here , and thus discoursing , we overtook a group of the
natives '' decked m holiday suit , on their way , as they informed us , to St . John ' s fair ; and as this place lay on our road , we joined company , amusing and instructing ourselves by asking them a number of questions connected with their agricultural pursuits , to which they gave us very intelligent replies , exhibiting none of the clownish stupidity or rudeness so generally conspicuous among the boors of other regions . Indeed , they were most necessary interpreters to us of the use and purposes of a small machine driven ba water-wheelto which our attention was
y , attracted hy its noise , like that of a fulling mill . The object itself , without understanding at first its peculiar benefits , deserved the regard of the searcher and lover of the picturesque . The situation where the useful little machine was built merited pencilling . It was down in a silent glen , above which we were wending our footsteps , forming a