SECT. IL!
Dozmery
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SECT. III.
Swan Pool*
SECT. IV.
-!Lp Pod.
5o- H A T V R A L H I ;.S. T O R Y
Four miles North of the church of St. .Neot’s, about fourteen
mîtes ' from Loo, on the South Sea, and as many from .the head
lands o f St. Gennys, on the North Sea, the .writers of the hills
adjoining gather into a bafon, and make a fmalf Lake $f about a
mile in compafe, called Dozmery Poolr : _h«eland days,. it w’as
reckoned fourteen or fifteen fathom deep ; blit Mr. Carew, page n,2
(better informed by experience) feys, that upon -tryal, nq JjJace in it
was found deeper than nine feet, and no fifh but Eels.
Betwixt the parifh of Budoc, in the ^Hundred -of Kerrier, and
that o f Falmouth, a finall Creek, not half a'mile long, nor a
quarter wide, is fever’d from the fea by a bar o f ,fend and fhingle.
This is now called the Swan Pool} (from die Swans kept here
feme years fence by the Killigrews, Lords of the foil ) ; but, in Le-
land’s time •, Levine Prifklo, alias Levine Pool, : The Edslof; this
water are reckoned extremely good.
The molt confiderable Lake we have in Cornwall is. die Lo Pool,
betwixt the parifh of Sithney on the Weft, and thofe o f Helfton,
apd Maugan on the Eaft. The Lake is about two‘ââiles „long,
and a furlong wide, formed by a bar of pebbles, fend, and fhin-,
gle, forced up againft the mouth of this Creek by the South Weft
winds * ; the valley here betwixt high lands on each fide giving vent
to, and thereby increafing the force and velocity of the winds from
this quarter. This bar dams up the water whfeheon^s down principally
from die Lo River, till it coptes to a fiepej^idge, (fcom-an;.
hofpital of the Templars dedicated to St, John) i^üed'St,,^|ih’a
Bridge, but is fed ahb in feme meafure, b y a ;few btooks below
Scarce a mile below the bridge, the Lake begins to overfpread the
whole valley; and in half a mile more, gaining in depth from
three to ten feet, makes a little creek into Penrôs : from this creek
the pool deepens, and from ten becomes twenty-two and twenty-fix
feet deep, till it is within a furlong and half of the bar, when k
rifes gradually from twenty-fix to ten feet at Its brim, being a mile
and quarter long, and a furlong wide at a medium. Not being able
to proceed farther to the South, the water winds away to the Eaft,
and fills Carminow Creek, half a mile long, and half a furlong
wide, at a medium. Thefe are the dimenfions of the Lo-pool in
fummer, the fuperfluous water draining through the bar into the •
Sea ; but in the winter the whole valley is oftentimes fpread with
' That is, the meeting or coming together of
the Lake water, Dôz-mêr-üv.
• » Vpl.HI. page. 15.
‘ Not the South Êaft, as Leland,. Vol. III.
page 1 ret, (ays.
* From Penventon and Penrofe on the Weft,
and Nanflow, Negybma, and Carminow, on the
.Eaftern banks.
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