ing perplexed in this manner, by one of theſe Water-Bulls, had more Cunning, and taking a Gun with him, charged with a Brace of Bullets, ſhot him as he was going into the River.
As to any Buildings of great Antiquity in this Iſland, there are now no Remains, after Caſtle Ruſſin, and Peel Caſtle, with the Churches about it, but the Nunnery, and the Fort at Duglas, each of which I ſhall deſcribe in a particular Manner.
That which is called the Nunnery, is ſituate in a good pleaſant Part of the Country, about half a Mile from Duglas, and tho' now entirely out of Repair, except one ſmall Part of it, where the preſent Major has his Reſidence, ſhows in its. Ruins that ſew Monaſteries once exceeded it, either in Largeneſs or fine Building. There are ſtill ſome of the Cloyſters remaining, the Cielings of which diſcover they were the Workmanſhip of the moſt maſterly Hands, nothing in the whole Creation but what is imitated in curious Carvings on it. The Pillars ſupporting the Arches are ſo thick, as if that Edifice
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