BOAZIO S MAP OF THE FAL. 



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Porengassis Baie=the harbour between Market Strand and 



Pengarrick or Bar Point. 

 Pennero Sand (?) Higher Point. E. of Arwenack House. 



Specimens are added of the inaccuracies of Boazio's Map, 

 when compared with a modern chart. 



From tte Block House. Pendennis, to the 

 Shag Rock, St. Anthony's Lighthouse 



From Pedmesack Point to Turnaware 



From Sawenheer Point (Zose Point) to 

 St. Roger's Point (Killygerran Head) 



From Pencarven Point (Flushing New 

 Quay) to Penryn Quay 



From Penryn to Trui'O ... 



From Truro to Tregony 



From Penryn to Tregony... 



Boazio's Map. 



E. 3° N". 



1 TcT miles. 



N. 42° W. 1 mile. 



N. 48°_E. liV 

 miles. 



West, 1 mile. 



N. 20° E. 4i miles 



IE. 2° S. 5 m. 

 N. 45° E. 7i m. 



Chart. 

 E. 8° S. 1 mile. 



N. 53° W. U miles 



N. 56° E.l_3_ miles 

 1 o 



N. 34° W. 1 -^ 

 miles. '^ 



N. 20° E. 6 m. 



F. 2°:S. 5 m.'l 



N. 45° E. 9 miles. 



The outline of the eastern coast of Falmouth Harbour seems 

 to have been drawn at random : creeks and coves are drawn 

 across a straight coast. The bearing from Mesack to Turnaware 

 is very wrong. On the opposite side Feock Church is placed 

 east and not west of Pill Creek. Diligent scrutiny will doubtless 

 detect many such flaws. 



Nevertheless the map surpassed its predecessors in a higher 

 degree than it has itself been improved upon by modern maps 

 and charts. Great credit is due to the foreign surveyor, with his 

 imperfect appliances, and means of information, and limited 

 time. Its value at present rests not on the survey, but on its 

 nomenclature and the picture of the towns and seats on the banks 

 of the Fal. 



Addendum. — The editor, Mr. H. M. Whitley, has stated the 

 information derived from Boazio's map for the Topography of 

 Truro in Elizabeth's reign. " In Truro, nothing was shewn on 

 the south of the river, the town then consisting of the church of 

 St. Mary, with the High Cross, Pydar Street, and St. Mary 

 Street, Old Bridge Street, with some houses on the St. Clement 

 side of the river ; King Street, Powder Street (now Boscawen 



