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: 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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