Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[Sidenote: Hilles.]
There are moreouer sundrie great hils therein, as that wherevpon S.
Mathees standeth, in the northeast part of the Ile, a parcell whereof
commeth flat south, betwéene kirk Louell, and kirk Marie, yéelding out
of their botoms the water Bala, whereof I spake before. Beside these and
well toward the south part of the Ile, I find the Warehils, which are
extended almost from the west coast ouertwhart vnto the Burne streame.
[Sidenote: Hauens.]
It hath also sundrie hauens, as Ramsei hauen, by north Laxam hauen, by
east Port Iris, by southwest Port Home, and Port Michell, by west. In
[Sidenote: Calfe of man.]
[Sidenote: The pile.]
[Sidenote: S. Michels Ile.]
like sort there are diuers Ilets annexed to the same, as the Calfe of
man on the south, the Pile on the west, and finallie S. Michels Ile
[Sidenote: Sheepe.]
in the gulfe called Ranoths waie in the east. Moreouer the sheepe of
this countrie are excéeding huge, well woolled, and their tailes of such
[Sidenote: Hogs.]
greatnesse as is almost incredible. In like sort their hogs are in maner
[Sidenote: Barnacles.]
monstrous. They haue furthermore great store of barnacles bréeding vpon
their coasts, but yet not so great store as in Ireland, and those (as
there also) of old ships, ores, masts, peeces of rotten timber as they
saie, and such putrified pitched stuffe, as by wrecke hath happened to
corrupt vpon that shore. Howbeit neither the inhabitants of this Ile,
[Sidenote: Barnacles neither fish nor flesh.]
nor yet of Ireland can readilie saie whether they be fish or flesh, for
although the religious there vsed to eat them as fish, yet elsewhere,
some haue beene troubled, for eating of them in times prohibited for
heretikes and lollards.
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