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I WAS at school at Rossall, between Fleetwood and Blackpool, on the coast of Lancashire. One day, being on the sea-wall with Arthur A. Dawson, an Irish boy, we could see the Isle of Man as if it were ten miles away, and then to the south of the Calf of Man we could distinctly see on the horizon the summits of two mountains, which we pronounced must be in Ireland. Four years later I was staying at Blackpool with my mother, when we distinctly saw the same blue mountains just appearing above the sea. Being in the Isle of Man later on, I was at Port Erie, to the west of Castletown, and saw the same summits, and was told they were the mountains of Mourne. From there the mountains stood well out of the water, though we could not see the rest of the coast. The Mourne Mountains are 2798 feet high. They are 125 miles from Blackpool.
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PAGE, A. Long Sight. Nature 32, 103 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032103a0
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