In passing along, your eyes shall be called away from guiding
your feete, to descry by their fardest kenning, the vast Ocean,
sparkled with ships, that continually this way trade, forth and backe,
to most quarters of the world. Neerer home, they take view of all
sized cocks, barges, and fisherboates, houering on the coast.
Againe, contracting your sight to a narrower scope, it lighteth on
the faire and commodious hauen, where the tyde daily presenteth his
double seruice, of flowing and ebbing, to carry and recarry whatsoeuer
the Inhabitants shall bee pleased to charge him withall, and his
creekes (like a young wanton louer) folde about the land, with many
embracing armes.
This walke is garded upon the one side, by Portruan; on the other,
by Bodyneck, two fishing villages: behinde, the rising hill beareth
off the colde Northern blasts: before, the towne of Foy subiecteth
his whole length and breadth to your ouerlooking: and directly
vnder you, ride the home and forraine shipping; both of these, in so
neere a distance, that without troubling the passer, or borrowing
Stentors voyce, you may from thence, not only call to, but confere
with any in the sayd towne or Shipping.
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