The countrey people
held many strange conceits of this poole; as, that it did ebbe &
flow, that it had a whirle-poole in the midst thereof, and,
that a fagot once throwne thereinto, was taken vp at Foy hauen,
6. miles distant. Wherefore, to try what truth rested in these
reports, some Gent, dwelling not farre off, caused a boate and nets
to be carried thither ouer land. Fish, they caught none, saue a
fewe Eeles vpon hookes: the poole prooued no where past a fathome
and halfe deepe, and for a great way very shallow. Touching the
opinion of ebbing and flowing, it should seeme to bee grounded,
partly vpon the increase, which the raine floods brought thereinto
from the bordering hils (which perhaps gaue also the name; for Doz,
is, come, and maur, great) and the decrease, occasioned by the
next drowth, and partly, for that the windes doe driue the waues to
and fro, vpon those sandie bankes: and thus the miracle of Dosmery
poole deceased. Of this other wonder hee sayd,
Dosmery poole amid the moores,
On top stands of a hill,
More then a mile about, no streames
It empt, nor any fill.
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