[17]. “Heylstoun, alias Hellas” says Leland, “standeth on a hill, a good Market towne, having a Mayor and privileges, wythin the which there is a Court for the Coinage of Tynne, kept twys in the Year. Yn the towne is both a Chapel and a paroch (Church) and vestegia castelli, and a ryver runnyng under the same vestegia of the Castel issueth towards The South Sea, stopped them yn the west part, with S. E. wyndes, casting up sandes maketh a poole, called Loo, of an arrow shot in breadth, and two myles yn compus yn the Somer. In the wynter, by reason of fluddes, men be constrayned to cut the sandy banke, between the Mouth of the Poole and the Sea, by the which gut the Sea floweth and ebbeth ynto the Poole.—Loo Poole is two mile in length, and betwixt it and the mayne Sea is but a barre of sand, and once in three or four year what by the wait of the fresh watier and rage of the Sea, it bubleth out, and then the fresh and Salt Water meeting maketh a Wonderful Noise. If this barre be always kept open it would be a good haven up to Hailston.”
[19]. Its matrix is an hard turpentine rock, in which it lies imbedded in veins or lobes, almost ductile when first dug out, but gradually indurating when exposed to the air, though always retaining its unctious feel. A considerable quantity has been used in the manufacture of china, but not for some time past.
[20]. In Lyson’s Mag. Brit. is a beautiful etching of Kynan’s Cove, by Miss Letitia Byrne.
[21]. The winters of 1809 and 1817, were particularly fatal to our shipping; and among others, the Anson Frigate was lost near Portleaven, when most of her brave crew were swallowed up by the ocean.—The Primrose Sloop of War, was lost near Gunwalloc Cove, and all on board perished, except a poor Irish boy.—On the same night, was lost off the Cove of Loverith, a transport, when only eight men escaped a watery grave!
[22]. One of which, an equestrian portrait of Charles I. on horseback, was presented to the family by Charles II., in consideration of the great attachment, sufferings, and heavy losses sustained in his support.
[23]. Beauties of England and Wales for Cornwall.
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Majestic Michael rises, he whose brow
Is crown’d with Castles, and whose rocky sides