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there is good accommodation, but even at this date it is noted 

 that the town and castle are much gone to decay. From here 

 the road, hilly, sandy, and irregular, ran to the King's High 

 Passage, and thence through Blow the Cold Wind to Market 

 Jew, a " mean town." St. Michael's Mount is then described on 

 the left, called the Hoar Eock, and it is interesting to find that 

 in Ogilby's time the lantern on the tower was not renowned as it 

 is at present, as he says, "a little distance from the castle is a 

 craggy place called St. Martin's chair." Penzance is next 

 mentioned as driving a considerable trade, well served with 

 provisions, and fish very plenty. Prom Penzance the road ran 

 by St. Burian to its termination at Sennen. The Grreat North 

 Road passed by Launceston, with its ruinous Castle, to " Hall 

 drunkard, alias Halworthy, a noted inn, affording as good 

 entertainment as any on the road," to Camelford, scarce number- 

 ing 50 houses, with apparent indifferent accommodation. From 

 hence the road ran to Padstow by a ferry over the Camel, 

 adjacent to which is a great sand, ''drove, as the people here 

 report, up from the sea by a north-west wind, and hath already 

 buried above 300 acres of land, several houses and part of the 

 church yet appearing visible." On the sands were also " three 

 or four sheds built for entertainment of the people come to the 

 hurlings, and for direction of passengers." Padstow is noted 

 as trading chiefly to Ireland, having an island at the mouth of 

 its harbour, renowned for good camphire and sea-fowl, and the 

 town possessing above all good accommodation. Ogilby notes 

 that there were 100 houses in St. Columb Major, and that there 

 they had the privilege of keeping court once in three weeks for 

 ail actions under 30s., Sir John Arundel being lord of the town, 

 but neither here or at Michel, a mean town of about 30 houses, 

 was there good accommodation. Truro noticed next, is large 

 and well built, a seaport well inhabited and frequented, and here 

 likewise the tynn coynn'd. The third road described by Ogilby 

 is the central road from Tavistock ; it ran to Liscard, with a 

 ruinous castle, an indifferent town, driving a considerable trade 

 in yarn, which is vended in Exeter, but apparently without good 

 accommodation. Hence the road ran by the Eastern, Middle, 

 and Western Taphouses, leaving Lestory Castle, now ruinous, on 

 the right, thro' Liswithiel, formerly seated on a hill, but now in 

 a bottom, once of greater account than now, the river being 



