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walls. Here is a Hone bridge of 1 5 arches c : below this bridge is the 
Creek, which, thro’ a narrow gut, admits the tide, and with it fmall barks. 
One mile below Sand-place, the Loo is joined by another ftream Duio, or 
from the Weft, called Duio: that is, the Black Loo, or Water ft Lo ° 
The diftrift through which it moftly runs, is called Duio, or Duloo 
pari Hi, as ft is reafonable to conjecture, from fome apparent darknefs 
in colour fufticient to diftinguifti it from the adjoining ftream of 
Eaft Loo, whofe whole courfe is at a medium not tw r o miles diftant. 
This water rifes in the parifti of St. Pinok, and coafting nearly South, 
becomes navigable at Trelaun wear, abotit two miles from the Sea ; 
a mile after it joins the Eaft Loo, and they both pafs the ftone 
bridge above-mentioned into Loo Creek; its whole courfe being 
about feven miles. 
Fawy e rifes in Fawy moor f , at a place called Fawy Well, in the Fawy River, 
parifti of Altarnun, not far from Brownwilly, one of the higheft 
mountains in Cornwall 5 . The higher part of this River is alio 
called Draines, and the firft bridge upon it is by Leland h called 
Draines Bridge ; after which pafting three other bridges ', and having 
taken into its ftream the Rivulets of St. Neot’s, Warlegan, and 
Cardinham parifhes, it comes to Refprin, alias Laprin 15 Bridge, 
whence, in about three miles, it reaches the borough of Loftwythyel, 
where it paftes a fair ftone bridge of nine arches, of which the water 
at prefent only ufeth three. In former ages the fea ebbed and flowed 
above this town *, and Camden fays brought up veftcls of good 
burthen : at prefent loaden barges fcarce come within a mile of it. 
In three miles more the Fawy, having taken Pellyn Brook from the 
Weft, receives the water of Leryn River and Creek from the Eaft, 
and becomes thence a deep and wide Flaven : in two miles more it 
reaches the town and borough of Fawy on the weftern bank ; and a 
little below, being joined by Polruan creek and brook from the 
Eaft, opens into the Sea, after a run of twenty- fix miles, betwixt 
two old towers (built in the reign of Edward I V m .) from which there 
formerly ftretched a chain for the defence of the harbour. This is 
thought the Jargeft body of frefh water, except the Tamar, in all 
this county. 
c Including two fquare openings made for the 
more commodioufly palling boats laden with wood. 
d Waters oftentimes take their names from 
fome remarkable colour, either of the water itfelf, 
or the fand or banks which they pafis by ; of which 
we may fee feveral inftances from Lhuyd, in Bax- 
ters Gloflary, page 266. 
^ ' In Lincoln Taxat. Faue ; in Leland, vol. ITI. 
page 22, Sic. Fawey, recti us F.iwy or Fauy, a fau 
o\ ea, Si wy aqua ; that is, the water of the deep 
ditch, vault, or den. 
In a very wagtnore in the fide of a hill.” 
Leland, vol. III. page 24. 
s On the banks of this River are three tenements, 
called Fauton in maps, but in the records Fawy ton, 
or the Town on the Fawy. See records of Knights 
Fees, taken from the third of Henry IV . Carew, 
page 42. 
h Vol. IT. page 24. 
* Clobha, Lergen, and Newbridge. Leland, 
ibid. 
k Leland, ibid. 
1 Leland, vol. III. page 23. 
m Ibid, page 22. 
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