DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLE OF MAN xxiil 
The long mountain-range of the isle ends in the south- 
west in two somewhat isolated hill-masses, gradually 
diminishing in height—the already-named Bradda Hill, 
north of Port Erin, and the Mull,’ south of that picturesque 
little bay. These outlying heights have fine seaward cliffs 
shortly to be mentioned. The Mull, cultivated on its lower 
parts, bears on its summit a rich growth of heather; it is, 
though comparatively low, a conspicuous object in the 
landscape of the south of the island, and commands fine 
views of sea and land. 
III. THe CentrRaL Hitt District—Coast, 
It will easily be imagined that the interest of Manx bird 
life must centre on the coast, and the coast of the whole 
main central district is high, rocky, bold, and clean-cut 
(‘The isle so sharply set’). In the quaint language of 
Denton, ‘This island stands like a man in triumph upon 
the Sea, Exalting its head on high, which by its rocky 
banks on all sides bids defiyance to the turbulent waves of 
all these Boysterous seas.’ 
Its outline often bends into curving bays, which run 
inland for no great distances, and whose shores usually 
maintain something of the same bold features. The larger 
of these have beaches of hard sand, but the muddy reaches 
which attract Ducks and many waders are nearly absent. 
Along the west from Peel to Port Erin the wild and 
beautiful sea-margin is almost entirely wanting in signs of 
the habitation and occupation of mankind, and this stretch, 
together with the extreme south-western peninsula and the 
Calf, is the chief seat of Man’s varied sea-bird life, which 
may also, though to less advantage, be studied on Maughold 
Head, and the Santon and Lonan cliffs. The western cliffs, 
1 ‘Meayll’ is perhaps a better spelling. There are a very interesting sepulchral 
circle, and other prehistoric vestiges, on the highest part of the hill. 
