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There are also some Ingrossers, who buy Wheat of the husbandman,
after 18. gallons the bushell, and deliuer it to the transporting
Marchant, for the same summe, at 16.
So doth their Pearch exceed that of other Countries, which amounteth
vnto 18. foote. And it is likewise obserued by strangers, that the
Cornish miles are much longer then those about London, if at least
the wearinesse of their bodies (after so painefull a iourney) blemish
not the coniecture of their mindes. I can impute this generall
enlargement of saleable things, to no cause sooner, then the Cornish
mans want of vent and money, who therethrough, to equall others in
quality of price, is driuen to exceed them in quantitie of measure.
Touching the personall estate of the Cornish Inhabitants, to begin
with their name in generall, I learne by master Camden (who, as the
Arch-antiquarie Iustus Lipsius testifieth of him, Britanniae nebulas
claro ingenij sole illustrauit) that Ptolomey calleth them Damnonii,
Strabo Ostidamnii, and Aretemidorus, Cossini.


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