M. Camden obserueth, that neere hereunto, stood the watch-towre,
mencioned by Orosius, and oppositely placed to such another in Galitia.
Stepping ouer to the South-sea, (for the distaunce [155] is in
comparison, but a step) S. Michaels mount looketh so aloft, as it
brooketh no concurrent, for the highest place. Ptolomey termeth
it Ocrinum, the Cornish men, Cara Cowz in Clowze, that is, The hoare
rocke in the wood. The same is sundred from the mayne land, by
a sandy playne, of a slight shoot in breadth, passable, at the ebbe,
on foote; with boat, on the flood. Your arriuall on the farther side,
is entertayned by an open greene, of some largenesse, which finishing
where the hill beginneth, leaues you to the conduction of a winding
and craggy path; and that at the top, deliuereth you into a little
plaine, occupied, for the greatest part, by a fort of the olde making.
It compriseth lodgings for the Captayne and his garrison, and a
Chappell for deuotion. This latter, builded by Will. Earle of Morton,
to whom William the Conquerour his vncle, gaue much lands in those
quarters, and greatly haunted, while folke endured their merits,
by farre trauailing.
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