Is There A Book Which Gives A Good Insight Into Life In The Isle Of Mann In The C18/C19 ?

General View of Agriculture in The Isle of Man
By Basil Quayle 1794 and Thomas Quayle 1812


The original works were the earliest books ever published on the state of agriculture in the Isle of Man.
The folowing is an extract from the book.

Markets and Fairs
Each town has a market for provifions on Saturdays, where the country people bring their poultrty. &c. to fell, and the butchers have their meat provided; but there is no fuch thing as a market for grain, the maltfters, millers and bakers, contracting with the farmers, after harveft is over, for whatever grain they have to fell.
As the quantity grown on the marled land of the north end of the ifland exceeds the confumption there, it is brought up and fhipped for England, or for the other parts of the ifland which are more populous, and do not produce a fufficiency.
The Fairs…for the fale of horfes, cattle and wearing apparel, the manufacturers of the ifland, are numerous, fearcely a week paffing without one; their frequency caufes many of them to be ill attended; there are fix at which a good deal of bufinefs is done.
Between two and three hundred head of oxen and heifers, and a few poneys, are bought up, and fent to England annually.
Many of the horfes expofed to fale at the fairs are imported from Ireland, of a larger breed than that of the country; but they are reckoned neither fo handy or active as the home bred, but by their fize are better adapted for the purpofes of labour.