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fish) and on the other end of it hang one or two or more 

 great stones, of which they have inany lying there, with a 

 great hook of iron fastened in them for that purpose ; of 

 these holes and rafters they have many all along the bed, 

 which press down the boards, wherewith I conceive the 

 bed of fish is covered, and so press the fish equally ; un- 

 derneath the bed they have a gutter to receive and convey 

 the oil which comes from the fish, into a vessel made on 

 purpose in the ground at one end of the house. They 

 have a pretty key made with a pier of stones, both here 

 and at St. Ives. On all the coasts hereabouts are cast up 

 plenty of sea-laces \Chorda filwn, Lamour.,] besides the 

 sea-girdle and hangers \Laminaria digitata, Lamour.,] 

 sea-belt [Lmnmaria saccliarina, Lamour.,] &c. On the 

 beach near Pensance, we saw growing many rare plants ; 

 to wit, Gnaphalium marinum [Biotis maritima, Cass.,] 

 in plenty; a kind of sea-pease, species Titliymali [^Eu- 

 phorbia peplis, Linn.,] which runs close to the ground, 

 the stalks of it red and round, the leaf green above, 

 having only one middle rib or fibre visible, which is red 

 underneath; the figm-e of it is oblong; but in those 

 leaves among the seed it misses one corner, as if a snip 

 were cut off" from it. Near Penryn, along the hedges 

 copiose, we found a kind of Linaria [L. repens. Ait.,] 

 the same as I have in my garden, by the name of Linaria 

 Hungarica, The leaves grow not in this confusedly upon 

 the stalk, as in the common, but in rundles ; it grows 

 sometimes to be a yard high, the stalks brittle, much 

 branched toward the top. The flowers grow not so thick 

 and clustering together as in the common, but at greater 

 distances, and are of a very pale blue, almost white, 

 streaked all along the claw or heel with long blue striae ; 

 the lower leaf hath a little appearance of yellow, but more 

 within if you open it. 



Wednesday, July the 2d, we went from Pensance to 

 Penryn, through Market Jew and Helston. We saw, at 

 a distance, St. Michael's Mount, a rock in the sea near 

 the shore, to which one may pass on foot at low water ; 



