Ids EARLY tOPOGEAPHY OP PALMOUTH. 



Next above is " The Strand in land yards," by a scale at the top of the map. 

 Two boats are drawn up upon the strand, which shows it to have then been, not 

 raised as now above high water mark, but as it naturally was, a level beach to the 

 sea, upon one end the north, " the stone which was the bound " of the strand on 

 the right at the corner of a lane, and which stood, at the north-eastern angle 

 of the house facing the lane to Webber's Well and Trevethan ; a road running 

 directly from it to Trevethan in t'le map, as this lane runs at present ; and 

 another road going on the left of it, as the road to Penryn goes at present ; a 

 ladder is seen at this house descending the bank towards the sea ; but at the other 

 end the south are three hous s being what I have previously pitched upon for 

 Smithwick, another house \'^here a part of the hotel stands at present, and a third 

 house beyond Smithwick to the south. 



Upon one side of these houses appears a road, just as a street is carried at 

 present, and a couple of houses is seen on the othpr side of that road. 



Above or west of the Strand is "The Highway," being the present street from 

 Penryn to Falmouth Church, as it extends along the Market Strand, &c. 



Above or west of this is " The Moor Hedge towards the sea," being the east- 

 ern boundary of the present Moor. 



Above both is this remark, " it appears very evidently by four measures, that 

 part of the Sellar with the courtledge stand up to higher than Killigriu's 



lands." Upon one side, '' the court ledge to the Sellar." Below, " The Sellar in 

 question was recovered [by] S'" Jo. Killiegriu about nine or ten years past." A 

 house beyond. Below, " Killigrews' land, ' "Tresayers land." 



Two water-courses are thus marked : 



N.B. — The new is evidently that, which discharges itself now at the Hotel. 

 The old was evidently one which discharged itself about the Market House. 



Towards the top of the map, near the left edge of it, is " Porthhan Hill," 

 Porran Hill at present, and meaning evidently now, as I have explained it before. 



Falmouth therefore, or Smythick as then called, consisted, when this map 

 was made, only of one house at the northern end of the Market Strand, being at 

 the north-eastern angle of it, five houses at the southern end, being three at the 

 south-eastern angle, and two at the south western. Horran lane is not in the map, 

 though Porran hill is ; because the houses did not then reach beyond the former. 



This is the oldest account that we have of Falmouth, posteriour to the con- 

 struction of the house called Smythwick.* when this house was built, as I have 

 observed before, there was no road where the present street is, because it was 

 built with its front to the cea, and with its back to a bank of rocks, the original 

 side of the hill. It accordingly appears built with the stones of the rock, is very 

 long, and three or four feet below the level of the street. 



* Whitaker alone spells the name thus, to suit his derivation. His facts may 

 be trusted, but not his inferences or theories without reserve. As has been stated, 

 Britton and Brayley, write " tSmithwick," after Whitaker. Smethwick is a town 

 in Staffordshire. 



Burghley's map (Plate A) 1580, gives, on this site, a solitary building, a lime- 

 kiln (Lym Kill), from which the inlet is called Lymkill Bale by Boazio (Plate D), 

 1597. I believe Whitaker had no authority for his '' house called Smythwick." 

 — H.M.J. 



