. Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man : towns, mountains, glens, waterfalls, legends, romantic associations, and history : how to reach the island, routes, distances, railways, steamboats, fares, hotel and other accommodation. he Fulrose FruitGarden; but if they are on Kirk Braddan bent, they willclimb the stile and pass on to the place where the two riversunite. Some pretty little cottages, with attractive flowergardens, are at Spring Valley, and then we cross the roadwhich leads by way of Quarter Bridge to the Peel road, andgo down the narrow pathway leading to K
. Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man : towns, mountains, glens, waterfalls, legends, romantic associations, and history : how to reach the island, routes, distances, railways, steamboats, fares, hotel and other accommodation. he Fulrose FruitGarden; but if they are on Kirk Braddan bent, they willclimb the stile and pass on to the place where the two riversunite. Some pretty little cottages, with attractive flowergardens, are at Spring Valley, and then we cross the roadwhich leads by way of Quarter Bridge to the Peel road, andgo down the narrow pathway leading to Kirk Braddan. Bythe wayside are some cottages on the summit of a bank, andaccess is gained by large blocks of stone serving as of these blocks jDrojects from the bank, but is not usednow, the cottage to which it led having probably been re-moved some centuries since. That it was in former timesconstantly used is evident from the wearing away of thestone on each side, the footsteps of those who availed them-selves of it giving to the block a rounded form remotely resem-bling a saddle. The Manx rustics are an imaginative race ;and as it runneth not in the memory of man that it wasever actually a stepping-stone, of course it must be a saddle. Short Walks from Dovghifi. 47 By a similar process of reasoning, as no human being wouldbe likely to use it as a saddle, stone blocks, firmly hxed m abank not being readily available for that purpose, equally ofcourse it must have been used by the fairies ; and in the oldbook already quoted, the inquisitive Waldron wrote, • Kotfar from Ballatietcher Is the Fairy Saddle, a stone so called,I suppose, from the similitude it has to a saddle. It seemsto be loose on the edge of a small rock, and the wise nativesof Man will tell you it is every night made use of by thefairies, but on what kind of horses I could never find anyone who could inform me. Befv 6 going down the lane leading to Kirk Braddan, ourattention will probably be directed
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