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Carew, Richard, 1555-1620

"The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue"

a crosse haumed S.
During summer season, the Seales haunt a Caue, in the Cliffe thereby,
and you shall see great store them, apparently shew themselues, and
approch verie neere the shore, at the sound of any lowde musicke,
or other such noyse.
Beyond Nants, M. Basset possesseth Tehiddy, who married Godolphin,
his father Coffyn : he beareth O. three Piles in point G.
a Canton Er. with a difference.
And so, leauing these priuate Inhabitances, & keeping still the
North coast, we arriue at the towne, and port of S. Ies: both of
meane plight, yet, with their best meanes, (and often, to good
and necessarie purpose) succouring distressed shipping. Order hath
bene taken, and attempts made, for bettering the Road, with a Peere,
but eyther want, or slacknesse, or impossibilitie, hitherto withhold
the effect: the whiles, plentie of fish is here taken, and sold
verie cheape.
As you row to the Westwards from hence, the sea floweth into a
large Caue, farder vp, then any man durst yet aduenture to discouer,
and the Cliffes thereabouts muster long strakes of a glittering hiew,
which import a shew of Copper: and Copper mynes are found, and wrought
in the grounds adioyning.


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