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: Graund pont.]
This Graund pont is foure miles from Roche hill, and two little miles
from Cregowie, betwixt which the Fala taketh his course. From Cregowie
to passe downe by the bodie of the hauen of Falamouth to the mouth of
Lanie horne pill or créeke, on the south side of the hauen is a mile,
and (as I remember) it goeth vp halfe a mile from the principall streame
of the hauen. From Lanihorne pill also is a place or point of sand about
a mile waie of fortie acres or thereabout (as a peninsula) called
Ardeuerauter. As for the water or créeke that runneth into the south
southeast part, it is but a little thing of halfe a mile vp into the
land, and the créeke that hemmeth in this peninsula, of both dooth seeme
to be the greater. From the mouth of the west creeke of this peninsula,
vnto saint Iustes creeke, is foure miles or more.
[Sidenote: S. Iustus.]
[Sidenote: S. Mawes.]
In like maner from saint Iustes pill or créeke (for both signifie one
thing) to saint Mawes creeke is a mile and a halfe, and the point
betwéene them both is called Pendinas. The créeke of saint Mawes goeth
vp a two miles by east northeast into the land, and beside that it
ebbeth and floweth so farre, there is a mill driuen with a fresh créeke
that resorteth to the same. Halfe a mile from the head of this downeward
to the hauen, is a créeke in maner of a poole, whereon is a mill also
that grindeth with the tide. And a mile beneath that on the south side
entereth a créeke (about halfe a mile into the countrie) which is barred
from the maine sea by a small sandie banke, and another mile yet lower,
is an other little créekelet. But how so euer these créekes doo run,
certeine it is that the bankes of them that belong to Fala are
meruellouslie well woodded. And hitherto Leland, whose words I dare not
alter, for feare of corruption and alteration of his iudgement. Being
past Falmouth hauen therefore (as it were a quarter of a mile beyond
Arwennach, maister Killegrewes place which standeth on the brimme or
shore within Falmouth) we came to a little hauen which ran vp betwéene
two hilles, but it was barred: wherefore we could not learne whether it
were serued with anie backe fresh water or not.
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