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But since that time, Master Camden's often mentioning this Work, and
his Friends Persuasions, had caused his Determination to alter, and to
embrace a pleasing Hope, that Charity and good Construction would rest
now generally in all Readers.
"Besides", says he, " the State of our Country hath
undergone so many Alterations, since I first began these
Scriblings, that, in the reviewing, I was driven either
likewise to vary my Report, or else to speak against my
Knowledge....
Reckon therefore (I pray you) that this Treatise plotteth
down Cornwall, as it now standeth, for the particulars,
and will continue, for the general."
Mr. Carew's Survey of Cornwall was receiv'd, when it came out, (as it
hath been ever since) with a general Applause; as it appears by the
Encomiums pass'd upon it, which it would be too long to enumerate. Mr.
Camden, in the sixth Edition of his Britannia, printed in 1607,
acknowledges, at the end of his Account of Cornwall, that our Author
had been his chief Guide through it (M).


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