DOUGLAS, to the east, is much the richest town, the best market, and most populous of any in the whole island; and as it has of late years increased in its trade, it has done so in its buildings. There are a neat chapel, a public school, several good houses, and excellent vaults and cellars for merchants' goods; but anybody that sees it would wish that authority had interposed to have made the buildings and streets more regular. The harbour for vessels of a tolerable burthen, is the safest in the island, the ships lying in it as quiet as in a dock or basin. Near to Douglas formerly stood a nunnery, now a good house, pleasantly seated and sheltered with trees. Douglas is now the principal town in the Island, but the seate of government is at Castletown, about ten miles distant. It rises near the southern part of the bay in a triangular form, and commends a charming view of the neighbouring country and the sea, as well as distant prospects of the Lancashire and Cumberland mountains. There is another singular circumstance, that the streets are not named,but go by the general name of Douglas; which, from their number and irregularity, make a guide absolutely necessary, to find the residence of any person; a difficulty, however, not much to be complained of, from the extreme civility of the inhabitants. The house of the Duke of Athol, in Douglas, is a substantial handsome building, it was built by a merchant of Douglas, previous to the sale of the royalties of the Island, who with a short-sighted policy, dreading that the very circumstance which has proved of such great advantage to the Island, would be its bane, sold his mansion for a sum not exceeding the value of the materials. Douglas is furnished with a free school, and, what will perhaps appear astonishing to an Englishman, there is not, in the whole Island, a single edifice devoted to the restoration of the sick, or the relief of the poor, yet in few places is private charity more universally liberal. The view of the bay, which is very delightful, is much enriched by the commanding appearance of Castle Mona, the magnificent newly erected palace of the Duke of Athol. Not far from Douglas stands the Nunnery, in a pleasant solitude, and near to the modern building are the venerable remains of the ancient house, which is said to have been founded by St Bridget, in the sixth century. The prioress of Douglas was anciently a baroness of the Isle. Kion Droghead is a village rather more than two miles from Douglas, of which the parish church is dedicated to St. Onca, the mother of St. Patrick, though the name is usually corrupted to Conchan. Kirk Lonan, the parish church, is a mile from the village; at some distance on the road to Douglas, are twelve stones placed in an oval form; just without the oval are two others, six feet high, one of which is cloven from top to bottom. The whole are erected on a mound of earth, elevated four or five feet; in the centre of which is an excavation seven feet long and three wide: the natives have connected several supernatural tales with this spot, but they give no rational account of its origin-most probably the whole is a remnant of Druidism.