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: 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, which is full ten miles from the
[Sidenote: Bresan Ile.]
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