Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
[Sidenote: Polwitherall.]
From thence we went by Polwitherall creeke (parted into two armes) then
[Sidenote: Polpenrith.]
to the Polpenrith, wherevnto a riueret falleth that riseth not farre
from thence, and so goeth to the maine streame of the hauen at the last,
whither the créeke resorteth about thrée miles and more from the mouth
of the hauen, and into which the water that goeth vnder Gare bridges,
doo fall in one bottome (as Leland hath reported.) Vnto this hauen
[Sidenote: Wike.]
[Sidenote: Gare.]
[Sidenote: Mogun.]
[Sidenote: Penkestell.]
[Sidenote: Callous.]
[Sidenote: Cheilow.]
[Sidenote: Gilling.]
also repaireth the Penkestell, the Callous, the Cheilow, and the
Gilling, although this latter lieth against saint Mawuons on the hither
side hard without the hauen mouth (if I haue doone aright.) For so
motheaten, mouldie, & rotten are those bookes of Leland which I haue,
and beside that, his annotations are such and so confounded, as no man
can (in a maner) picke out anie sense from them by a leafe togither.
Wherefore I suppose that he dispersed and made his notes intricate of
set purpose: or else he was loth that anie man should easilie come to
that knowledge by reading, which he with his great charge & no lesse
trauell attained vnto by experience. Thus leauing Fala hauen, as more
troublesome for me to describe, than profitable for seafaring men,
without good aduise to enter into, we left the rocke on our left hand,
and came straight southwest to Helford hauen, whose water commeth downe
[Sidenote: Haile.]
from Wréeke (where is a confluence of two small rilles whereof that rill
consisteth) by Mawgan and Trelawarren, and then it receiueth a rill on
the north ripe from Constantine, after whose confluence it goeth a maine
vntill it come to the Ocean, where the mouth is spoiled by sand comming
from the tinworks. See Leland in the life of S. Breaca. Beneath this
also is another rill comming from S. Martyrs, by whose course, and
another ouer against it on the west side that falleth into the sea by
Winniton, all Menage is left almost in maner of an Iland. From hence we
go south to the Manacle point, then southwest to Lisard, and so north
and by west to Predannocke points, beyond which we méet with the fall of
the said water that riseth in the edge of Menag, and goeth into the sea
by Melien on the north, and Winniton on the south. By north also of
[Sidenote: Curie.]
Winniton is the Curie water that runneth short of Magan, and toucheth
with the Ocean south of Pengwenian point.
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