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With E. H. p., I infer that the island presented by Solomon 

 was more probably the j?mnsula of Pendennis whose isthmus 

 connects it with Arwinnick than, the alternative, Enys {i.e. island), 

 which lies a little eastward of Bohellan. Thus going westward, 

 Arwinnack house would be a mile from the Castle ; Tregenver a 

 mile from it; and this a mile from Budock Church, Glasney 

 would be two miles north-west of Arwinnick, a little over a mile 

 north of the church, and less than a mile north-east of Kegellik 

 house, whilst this house and the church were a half-of-a-mile 

 asunder.* 



In the map there is shown a highway, which still exists, 

 leading from the head of one creek to that of another along the 

 coast, and in this manner passing Bohellan, going through Penryn, 

 and between Glasney and the palace near it by the mills, bisecting 

 the wood and Kegellik (touching the house) in the way round the 

 heads of the Gweek Creek. Its first branch leftward arises in 

 the midst of the wood and leads to Budock Church, and between 

 it and Nangitha to Helford Ferry. Now there is a road at the 

 present time that leaves the church to intersect the branch and 

 trunk highways at right-angles, consisting of a field pathway at 

 either end and of a cart road only used for the purposes of the 

 farm called Nangitha Lane in the middle part. In this lane at 

 one-quarter-of-a-mile from the church, there is a stile that opens 

 upon a field-path that conducts straight towards Penryn ; and a 

 pedestrian, when at this point, has the choice of three field-paths 

 into the trunk road, and of several routes, two of which (one on 

 either hand) touch, and one traverses Tregenver to Falmouth (in 

 the map, Arwinnick). In Elizabethan times the minor roads and 

 paths hereabouts must have been much as those of our day. 

 Hence without indulging in further details, it is plain that the 

 entrance to the stile in Nangitha Lane must have been in the days 

 of Glasney, a point where wayfarers proceeding to and from various 

 busy neighbourhoods would have occasion to pass. 



* Op-cU, V. ii, p. 480. E. H. P. says of "Tregenver and Kegyllik." 

 " The former is in the parish of Falmouth and the latter in St. Budock, bvit 

 near the boundary dividing it from Falmouth : " whereas both farms lie 

 wholly in Budock. The latter is bounded both on the south and east by 

 Falmouth, whilst north-westward Trescobaes and two or three fields lie 

 between it and Kegellik. It is true, however, that both Tregenver and 

 Trescobaes belonged to the Manor of Arwenack (Arwinnick). 



