522 ISLE OF MAN. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



1600 and 1300 feet of elevation, and more or less accu- 

 rately in the same line, appertain to the same elevated 

 and central range, which declines gradually, at the north- 

 eastern end, in Cronk dhu, and at the south-western, in 

 Slieu y carnan. The summits of these several hills do 

 not however rise materially above the ridge itself which 

 connects them. The inferior ridges which on each side 

 decline from this leading one, are prolonged in directions 

 tolerably parallel to it, with such deviations as might be 

 expected, until they terminate, like that, in the shore, 

 or in the flatter tract of Castle Rushen division. Mullach 

 oure and Slieu learn, each of them reaching to 1500 feet 

 or upwards, are the most elevated points of the south- 

 eastern of these ranges, while Garden, Slieu dhu, and 

 Caran form the chief prominencies on the north-western 

 side. Neither of these ridges however is strongly distin- 

 guished from the central one ; each being connected with 

 the principal by high land, in the same way as the pre- 

 dominant summits in all the three ridges are by the inter- 

 mediate parts. The transition from these higher elevations 

 to the hilly land beneath, is gradual and imperceptible, 

 as I have before remarked; no criterion being present 

 to distinguish them, except the very irregular one formed 

 by the boundary of agricultural improvement. The lower 

 undulations are numerous and irregular, reaching the sea 

 on all sides, except that which is bounded by the northern 

 alluvial tract, and that where the flattish country forming 

 Castle Rushen division intervenes. Scarcely a level spot of 

 any extent is to be found throughout the whole of this 

 .range ; the undulation of the ground being uninterrupted, 

 and the hills succeeding each other with only small valleys 

 interposed, the predominant tendency of which is at angles 

 to the leading ridge. This part of the country is covered 

 with inclosures, with scattered farm houses, and with 

 cultivation ; which, cramped as it must always be in a 

 certain degree wherever small farms constitute a prin- 

 cipal portion of the allotment of the land, is in every 



