AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLE OF MAN. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Situation and Extent of the Isle of Man. Etymology of its Name. A Sketch of its Minera logy. MAN is an island in the Irish Sea, distant from St. Bee's-head, in Cumberland, thirty nau. tical miles; from Burrow-head, in Scotland, sixteen miles; and from Strangford, in Ireland, twenty seven miles; the latitude of the middle of the island being fifty four degrees and sixteen minutes north. Its length rather exceeds thirty miles, and its mean breadth ten. Etymologists are not agreed respecting the derivation of its name. Bishop Wilson sup B |