Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of CuriosityStockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
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Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of Curiosity
Stockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
Cornwall (England : County) -- Description and travel; Cornwall (England : County) -- History
Footnote 15:
Lysons’s Mag. Brit. page 121.
Footnote 16:
A very correct plan of this harbour is inserted in Gilbert’s History
of Cornwall.
Footnote 17:
“Heylstoun, alias Hellas” says _Leland_, “standeth on a hill, a good
Market towne, having a Mayor and privileges, wythin the which there is
a Court for the Coinage of Tynne, kept twys in the Year. Yn the towne
is both a Chapel and a paroch (Church) and vestegia castelli, and a
ryver runnyng under the same vestegia of the Castel issueth towards
The South Sea, stopped them yn the west part, with S. E. wyndes,
casting up sandes maketh a poole, called _Loo_, of an arrow shot in
breadth, and two myles yn compus yn the Somer. In the wynter, by
reason of fluddes, men be constrayned to cut the sandy banke, between
the Mouth of the Poole and the Sea, by the which gut the Sea floweth
and ebbeth ynto the Poole.—Loo Poole is two mile in length, and
betwixt it and the mayne Sea is but a barre of sand, and once in three
or four year what by the wait of the fresh watier and rage of the Sea,
it bubleth out, and then the fresh and Salt Water meeting maketh a
Wonderful Noise. If this barre be always kept open it would be a good
haven up to Hailston.”
Footnote 18:
See page 5.
Footnote 19:
Its matrix is an hard turpentine rock, in which it lies imbedded in
veins or lobes, almost ductile when first dug out, but gradually
indurating when exposed to the air, though always retaining its
unctious feel. A considerable quantity has been used in the
manufacture of china, but not for some time past.
Footnote 20:
In Lyson’s Mag. Brit. is a beautiful etching of Kynan’s Cove, by Miss
Letitia Byrne.
Footnote 21:
The winters of 1809 and 1817, were particularly fatal to our shipping;
and among others, the Anson Frigate was lost near Portleaven, when
most of her brave crew were swallowed up by the ocean.—The Primrose
Sloop of War, was lost near Gunwalloc Cove, and all on board perished,
except a poor Irish boy.—On the same night, was lost off the Cove of
Loverith, a transport, when only eight men escaped a watery grave!
Footnote 22:
One of which, an equestrian portrait of Charles I. on horseback, was
presented to the family by Charles II., in consideration of the great
attachment, sufferings, and heavy losses sustained in his support.
Footnote 23:
Beauties of England and Wales for Cornwall.
Footnote 24:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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