Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, CompleteHolinshed, Raphael
History
Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete
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
[Sidenote: Hauens.]
streame. 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 like sort there are diuers Ilets annexed to the same, as the
[Sidenote: Calfe of man.]
[Sidenote: The pile.]
[Sidenote: S. Michels Ile.]
Calfe of man on the south, the Pile on the west, and finallie S.
Michels Ile in the gulfe called Ranoths waie in the east. Moreouer the
[Sidenote: Sheepe.]
sheepe of this countrie are excéeding huge, well woolled, and their
[Sidenote: Hogs.]
tailes of such greatnesse as is almost incredible. In like sort their
hogs are in maner monstrous. They haue furthermore great store of
[Sidenote: Barnacles.]
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, nor yet of Ireland can readilie saie
[Sidenote: Barnacles neither fish nor flesh.]
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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