DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLE OF MAN Xxix 
IV. THE SOUTHERN LOWLAND. 
At the south of the mountain district, as at the north, 
is a level tract, in this case smaller and of limestone 
formation, which surrounds Castletown and extends from 
the Santon Burn to Port St. Mary. Here the coast is 
generally low, rocky, and weedy, the best ground in the 
isle for waders and Ducks. Along the grassy edges of 
the shore rocks, heather, bracken, and gorse, usually so 
abundant in similar situations in Man, almost entirely 
fail. Under Mount Gawne there is a fine stretch of 
sand with a shingle bank, and the bay of Castletown 
has a similar beach at the east end of the town, over- 
looked by the low bluff of drift on which stand the 
shattered and undermined fragments of Hango Tower. 
The promontory of Langness, mostly of slate rock, 
steep but low, projects far into the sea. At its extremity 
is the lighthouse, so often to be mentioned in connection 
with migration entries. On the opposite side of Castle- 
town Bay is Scarlett Point, with its dark Stack, geo- 
logically interesting. The flora and fauna of this limestone 
district offer some remarkable contrasts with those of the 
island in general; it is almost without trees, and of a very 
open character. Curlews (plentiful also in the north), Red- 
shanks, Oyster-catchers, Dunlins, and Ringed Plovers are 
abundant on its shores; Whimbrel, Turnstones, and more 
scarcely, Godwits, make their appearance in season. The 
Sheldrake is resident, and Ducks of other species are 
comparatively frequent in occurrence. 
Of the land under cultivation in Man, which, as above men- 
tioned, constitutes about two-thirds of the surface, it is not 
here necessary to say much. Though its hilly surface and 
the thinness of its soil do not allow to Man a high degree 
