42 NATURAL HISTORY 
River Fai. The next navigable ftream is the Fal ", which rifes at a place 
called Fenton Val, (that is, the fource of Fal) about two miles Weft 
of Roche Hills, and running about eight miles to the South, may 
be called a plentiful ftream at the borough of Granpont, where it 
paffes under a ftone bridge that gave the prefen t name to this bo- 
rough, but has nothing elfe remarkable. About a mile below this 
bridge the River was formerly navigable, at lead; for boats ; but is 
now deprived of that great a i vantage ; in three miles farther, 
it reaches the borough and bridge of Tregeny. To this place in 
the lad: century the defign of making the River Fal navigable by 
fluices up to Granpont was nearly completed by one Colonel Tre- 
vanion ; but this attempt, fo much for the benefit of the adjacent 
country, had no confequence but what fhould be mentioned with 
concern ; I mean, that of exhaufting the private purfe of this public- 
Ipinted Gentleman. A mile below Tregeny Bridge the waters begin 
to fpread, and aflifted by the tide, and many little brooks on either 
hand, forms a Creek, about three miles long, called Lamoran ° 
Creek. Here, having wafhed the Southern fide of the lands and park 
of Tregothnan, feat of the Right Honourable Lord Vifcount Fal- 
mouth, it is joined by Truro Creek, a noble body of water to which 
the Rivers of Kenwyn and St. Allen give the firft rife, and meet- 
ing at the borough of Truro, make with the tide a navigable chanel 
for fhips of ioo ton burthen to come up to the town Kaye. From 
Truro, after making a fmall Creek to the Wed:, in two miles it 
joins St. Clement’s Creek, which is navigable for barges, three miles 
to the Eaft, as far as 1 reftlien Bridge. T ruro Creek and St. Cle- 
ment s at their meeting make Morpas p Rode, and proceeding about 
a mile farther, meet the Fal at the mouth of Lamoran Creek, whence 
they all together, under the name of Fal, in two miles more reach 
the principal branch of Falmouth Harbour, called Carrep- Rode ; 
hither flows from the Weftward Tretheag River, and wTth fome 
other Brooks from the North form Reftronget Creek \ Melor, 
or Milor Cieek is next , {mail, but fheltered r : then comes the 
great Creek, or rather Harbour, called King’s-Rode, which has 
Flufliing to the Eaft, and the populous town of Falmouth to the 
Weft, and is navigable two miles up to the borough and port of 
Penryn, whither fhips of ioo ton and fomewhat more may come 
up. A little below this laft-mentioned town, on each fide of the 
Creek, there was a jutty head, and, to guard the gap between, 
" 1 ° Leland, Vol. iii. page 17, Fala, unde 
Coit Fala ; that is, F ala-wood; the antient name of 
Granpont, more antiently Hill called Vol andCenio. 
The Church of St. Moran, fays Leland, vol. 
III. page 17, or, as is more probable, from Mo- 
raun, or Morhaun ; that is, the River Haven, 
fcil : where the River and Sea meet. 
p Tllat is > the paffage over the Sea ; in Leland, 
called Maples Rode. 
9 Leland, vol. III. page 16. 
r Wherein the greateft fliipp that failes may 
ryde faufe. Norden s Survey of Cornwall, p. 47. 
there 
