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: Loo.]
From hence we sailed to the Loo mouth, which some call Lopoole, because
it is narrower at the fall into the sea, than it is betwéene the sea and
Hailston. It riseth aboue S. Sethians, and comming downe by Wendron, it
hasteth to Hailston or Helston, from whence onelie it is called Loo: but
betwéene Helston and the head, men call it commonlie Cohor. Of this
riuer Leland saith thus: The Lopoole is two miles in length, and betwixt
it and the maine Ocean is but a barre of sand that once in thrée or
foure yéeres, what by weight of the fresh water, and working of the sea
breaketh out, at which time it maketh a wonderfull noise: but soone
after the mouth of it is barred vp againe. At all other times the
superfluitie of the water of Lopole (which is full of trout and éele)
draineth out through the sandie barre into the open sea: certes if this
barre could alwaies be kept open, it would make a goodlie hauen vp vnto
Haileston towne, where coinage of tin is also vsed, as at Trurie and
Lostwithiell, for the quéenes aduantage.
Being passed the Loo, I came to another water that descendeth without
[Sidenote: Simneie.]
anie increase from Crowan by Simneie, whose whole course is not aboue
thrée miles in all. Then going by the Cuddan point, we entered the
mounts Baie, and going streight north (leauing S. Michaels mount a
[Sidenote: Lid.]
little vpon the left hand) we came to the Lid, which rising short of
Tewidnacke, descendeth by Lidgenan, and so into the sea. Certes the
course of these waters cannot be long, sith in this verie place this
breadth of land is not aboue foure miles, and not more than fiue at the
verie lands end. There is also a rill east of Korugie, and Guluall, and
another west of the same hard at hand, and likewise the third east of
Pensants: and not a full quarter of a mile from the second, southwest of
Pensants also lieth the fourth that commeth from Sancrete ward by
Newlin, from whence going southwest out of the baie by Moushole Ile,
that lieth south of Moushole towne, we come to a water that entreth into
the Ocean betwixt Remels & Lamorleie point. Trulie the one head thereof
commeth from by west of Sancrete, the other from by west of an hill that
standeth betwéene them both, and ioining aboue Remels, it is not long
yer they salute their grandame. After this, and before we come at
Rosecastell, there are two other créekes, whereof one is called
Boskennie, that riseth south of saint Buriens, and an other somewhat
longer than the first, that issueth by west of the aforesaid towne,
wherein is to be noted, that our cards made heretofore doo appoint
S. Buriens to be at the very lands end of Cornewall, but experience now
teacheth vs, that it commeth not néere the lands end by thrée miles.
This latter rill also is the last that I doo reade of on the south side,
and likewise on the west and north, till we haue sailed to S. Ies baie,
[Sidenote: Bresan Ile.]
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