From Kirk Michael to RAMSAY is about ten miles. The road is through a rich and beautiful country. Ramsay is a small neat town, most pleasantly situated under hills, in a state of cultivation, and bordering upon its fine and extensive bay. The vicinity of Ramsay is by far the most beautiful part of the Island; and the town, with its surrounding scenery, strongly reminds the traveller from the south of the villages used as bathing places on the coast of Devonshire; and Ramsay, in common with the other towns, has a good inn and good shops. It is distant from Douglas sixteen miles by the Laxey road, twenty-six by way of Kirk Michael, and sixteen frown Peel.
JURBY. The Curragh drain intersects this parish, and passes through Ballaugh. the peat, or turf, is fine. The immense trunks of oak and fir dug up with it (some lying deep) afford matter of surprise and astonishment, as that part of the Island is now so bare of trees, and those very small in size. These turf bogs, from their depth, goodness, and facility of working, are very valuable, and in a course of years regenerate themselves again, the continual wetness inducing a continual vegetation of moss. From the church is a peculiarly fine view of the three kingdoms, and of the north side of the Island.
Crossing the Island to the north east, at about five miles from Ramsay, stands KIRK BRIDE, the most northern parish in the Island. The point of Ayre is a little way beyond it. It is an extensive bell of sand, at the end of which the circuits meeting, form a large vortex.
The church overlooks the point of Ayre, and commands a full view of the noble and extensive bay of Ramsay, and of the bold shore from that town and harbour, to the promontory of Maughold.-Porpoises are often seen playing in this bay. This monster, from which we now turn with loathing, was, it is said, formerly eaten with avidity by the old English epicure, and that ancient cookery exhausted all its art in mixing sauces for this delectable morceau.