For the rest,
such as compare Plymmouth and Falmouth together, obserue, that
Plymmouth creekes are mostly coasted with plaine shoares; Falmouth,
with steepe: which maketh that, the more delightfull for prospect,
this, the more safe for riding. Againe, they say that Falmouth
lyeth farther out in the trade way, and so offreth a sooner oportunity
to wind-driuen shipping, then Plymmouth, but that Plymmouth hath a
better outlet, from his Catwater, for saylers [150] bound to
the Westwards, and from Hamoase for those that would fare to the East,
then Falmouth. Likewise as Plymmouth vaunteth richer and fairer
townes, and greater plentie of fish then Falmouth: so Falmouth
braggeth, that a hundred sayle may Anker within his circuite,
and no one of them see the others top, which Plymmouth cannot equall.
Howsoeuer they agree for competence among themselues, the worst
of them, by most mens iudgements, hath the precedence (Milford onely
excepted) of all other hauens in England. And thus much of the whole.
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