Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and MaryFiennes, Celia
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Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary
Fiennes, Celia
England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
From Truro w^{ch} is 9 mile from Ffallmouth and 4 mile from Trygolny
w^{ch} was y^e place I was at before w^{th} my Relation, that would have
Engaged my stay with them a few dayes or weekes to have given me the
diversion of the Country, and to have heard the Cornish nightingales as
they Call them, the Cornish Chough—a sort of Jackdaw if I mistake not—a
Little black bird w^{ch} makes them a visit about Michaelmas and gives
them y^e diversion of the notes w^{ch} is a Rough sort of musick not
unlike y^e Bird I take them for, so I believe they by way of jest put on
the Cornish Gentlemen by Calling them nightingales; but the season of
the year enclined to raine and y^e dayes declineing I was affraid to
delay my Return, and these parts not abounding w^{th} much accomodation
for horses, theirs being a hard sort of Cattle and Live much on Grass or
ffurses of w^{ch} they have y^e most, and it will make them very ffatt
being Little hardy horses, and as they jest on themselves do not Love
the taste of oates and hay, because they never permit them to know the
taste of it. But my horses Could not Live so, Especially on journeys, of
w^{ch} I had given them a pretty exercise, and their new oates and hay
suited not their stomach. I Could get noe Beanes for them till I Came
back to S^t Columbe againe w^{ch} from Truro by S^t Mitchel was 12 miles
mostly Lanes and Long miles. As I observed before I saw noe windmills
all these Countrys over, they have only the mills w^{ch} are overshott
and a Little rivulet of water you may step over turns them, w^{ch} are
the mills for Grinding their Corn and their ore or what Else. From S^t
Columbe I went to Way bridge 6 Long miles. There was a river w^{ch} was
flowed up by y^e tyde a Greate way up into the Land, it Came from y^e
north sea, it was broad, y^e bridge had 17 arches.
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