XXVi DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLE OF MAN 
and on the north-eastward to Kione y Ghoggan, a fine 
stretch of cliffs. In marked contrast to the north-eastern 
extremity of Man is its south-western termination. Here 
the isle ends in a little tract of level flowery greensward, 
overlooking the restless currents of the Sound, and quaintly 
named ‘The Parade.’ This is almost cut off by two steep- 
sided creeks on either hand, the Sheep and Horse Ghaws, 
which form the ferry harbours for the Calf. Eastward rises 
a higher and bolder peninsula, the Burrow Ned, topped with 
old earthworks, and having a fine lookout on the sheer and 
bird-thronged precipices toward Spanish Head. 
The Calf islet is a mass of upland reaching at its west 
side to the height of four hundred and twenty-one feet; it 
is rocky all round, and is separated from the main island 
by a sound five hundred yards wide, through which the 
tides flow with great force. In this strait lies the tiny 
islet of Kitterland. On the north the coast of the Calf is 
comparatively low, but the north-eastern corner, Kione 
Rouayr, which faces Spanish Head across the Sound, has 
precipices with abundant rock-birds. From the Ghaw 
Yiarn, a fine cleft south of Kione Rouayr, the cliffs gradu- 
ally lower along the east coast until they end at the 
isolated Burrow, a lofty perforated mass of rock inhabited 
by many Herring and Black-backed Gulls. The south 
coast consists of three peninsulas with low steep sides, and 
a flat turf of grass and sea-pink, the latter being very 
abundant and lending a beautiful rosy tint to the ground 
during its flowering season. Many Gulls nest here. Under 
the disused lighthouses the western side rises into the 
highest cliffs of the Calf, with a fine double pyramid of 
rock, called the Stack, opposite. The ledges of the very 
steep cliffs on either side hold many rock-birds. From 
this round to Gibdale Bay near the Sound are lofty brows 
of rock and sward inhabited by many Herring Gulls and 
