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DESCRIPTION
OF THE
Iſle of MAN.
BETWEEN Great Britain and Ireland there is ſtretched out a conſiderable Iſland from North to South, about Thirty Italian Miles in Length; but where wideſt, not above Fifteen in Breadth. The ſeveral ancient Writers have given it ſeveral Names: by Cæſar 'tis called Mona; by Ptolemy, Monœda; by Pliny, Monabia; and the ſame Variety appears in ſuch of our Modern Authors, as make mention of it. It was firſt inhabited by the Britons, then by the Scots, or Picts, and afterwards by the Norwegians, who had it in their Poſſeſſion a long Time: it ſince paſſed thro' a ſtrange Diverſity of Revolutions, and at length, fell into the Hands of the Engliſh, about the latter End of Edward the Firſt, and remains to this Day under their