The residue retired
into the heart of the land, where, vpon a longer warning, they might
sooner assemble from all sides, to make head, and the enemie in so
far a march and retrait, should aduenture a greater hazard to bee
distressed by the way. Which policy the French were driuen vnto,
in Edward the thirds time, vpon the Englishmens [58] often roades,
and the Spaniards make vse of at this day, in their Indies.
Touching the decayed Inland townes, they are counteruayled with a
surplusage of increase of those on the coast, and the desolate walks
in the Mores, haue begotten a seuen-fold race of cotages neere the
sea side. And thus much of Cornwall compared with it selfe: now,
if you match it with other champion Shires, methinks, I may gather
the same to be better inhabited, within a like circuit of miles,
because the plenty of hils & valleys, afford a large quantity of
ground thereunto. He that cannot conceiue this, may read Polibius
in his 9 booke, where it is written, that for this reason,
Lacedemon, being but fourty eight furlongs in compasse, contayneth
more dwellings then Megalopolis, which extendeth vnto fiftie.
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