tho’ they are so ill supply’d at Pensands because they carry it all up y^e Country East and Southward. This is an arme of y^e North Sea w^{ch} runs in a greate way into y^e Land, its a Large Bay when y^e sea comes in and upon y^e next hill I ascended from it could discover it more plaine to be a deep water and y^e supply of y^e maine ocean. Just by here lay some ships and I perceived as I went, there being a Storme, it seemed very tempestious and is a hazardous place in the high tides; so I came to Redruth. I perceive they are very bleake in these Countryes especially to this North Ocean and y^e winds so troublesome they are forced to spin straw and so make a caul or net work to lay over their thatch on their Ricks and out houses, w^{th} waites of Stones round to defend y^e thatch from being blown away by y^e greate winds, not but they have a better way of thatching their Houses w^{th} Reeds and so close y^t when its well done will last twenty yeares, but what I mention of braces or bands of straw is on their Rickes w^{ch} only is to hold a yeare. These places as in some other parts, indeed all over Cornwall and Devonshire, they have their carryages on horses backes, this being y^e time of harvest, tho’ later in y^e yeare than usuall being y^e middle of septemb^r, but I had y^e advantage of seeing their harvest bringing in, w^{ch} is on a horse’s backe w^{th} sort of crookes of wood like yokes on either side—two or three on a side stands up in w^{ch} they stow y^e corne and so tie it w^{th} cords, but they cannot so equally poise it but y^e going of y^e horse is like to cast it down sometimes on y^e one side and sometimes on y^e other, for they load them from y^e neck to y^e taile and pretty high and are forced to support it w^{th} their hands, so to a horse they have two people, and the women leads and supports them as well as y^e men and goe through thick and thinn—sometymes I have met with half a score horses thus Loaded—they are Indeed but Little horses their Canelles as they Call them, and soe may not be able to draw a Cart, otherwise I am sure 3 or 4 horses might draw 3 tymes as much as 4 horses does Carry and where it is open Ground and roads broad, w^{ch} in some places here it was, I wondred at their Labour in this kind, for the men and the women themselves toiled Like their horses, but the Common observation of Custom being as a second nature people are very hardly Convinc’d or brought off from, tho’ never soe jnconvenient.