. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Man passed with it into their possession; but some time afterwards it waswrested from the Scotch, and made a separate kingdom, dependent uponEngland. Thomas, Earl of Derby, relinquished the title of King of Man, andtook that of Lord, and since 1784 the British Government has purchased all thesovereign rights and privileges appertaining to the island. Man, at the presenttime, is a dependency of the British crown, unrepresented in the Imperial Parlia-ment. It is, in fact, a kind of colony, governed by an independent legislature, * Atlas Maritimus et Commercia
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Man passed with it into their possession; but some time afterwards it waswrested from the Scotch, and made a separate kingdom, dependent uponEngland. Thomas, Earl of Derby, relinquished the title of King of Man, andtook that of Lord, and since 1784 the British Government has purchased all thesovereign rights and privileges appertaining to the island. Man, at the presenttime, is a dependency of the British crown, unrepresented in the Imperial Parlia-ment. It is, in fact, a kind of colony, governed by an independent legislature, * Atlas Maritimus et Commercialis, George Canning, Isle of Man. 300 THE BRITISH ISLES. called the Tynwald, and consisting of two branches—the Governor and Council,and the House of Keys. The inhabitants of the island may consequently claim toform a state within the state. They differ, moreover, from their neighbours on thelarger islands in their traditions, their double origin, and partly also in language. Pig. 148.—The Isle of 1 : 150, Depth under 11 Fathoma. H to 22 Fathoms. 22 to 33 2 MUes. Over 33 Fathoms. Manx holds a middle place between Irish and Scotch Gaelic, but inclines con-siderably to the latter; but it is spoken now only in some of the more remotedistricts, and altogether by hardly a fourth part of the population. All but a fewof the oldest inhabitants understand English. Manx literature, in addition toreligious books, includes a few ballads of the sixteenth century. The descent of the THE ISLE OF MAN. 301 inhabitants is not, however, purely Celtic, for there has been a strong intermixtureof Scandinavian blood.* A range of mountains of considerable elevation traverses the island from thesouth-vrest to the north-east, and a depression near its centre separates thisrange into two distinct masses. Standing upon the principal summit (2,004 feet),the whole of the Irish Sea, with the mountains that bound it, lies spread beneathus. This mountain still bears the Scan
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