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otherwife ; the tide has flowed three hours before it can enter Heyl, 
and it ebbs three hours in the open Sea after the tide has quite dif- 
appeared in Heyl : ’tis therefore but a half-tide haven : yet, not- 
withftanding this, ’tis a place of conflderable trade for iron, Briftol 
wares, but more efpecially Welfh coal, for which at prefent there 
is fuch a demand for fire-engines, melting-houfes, and the home- 
confumption of a populous neighbourhood, that ufually there are 
above five hundred, oftentimes a thoufand horfes, which come to 
carry off coals, for fome purpofe or other, fix days in the week. 
The fire-engines, which take off the greatefl: quantity of coal from 
this harbour, are ftill increafing in number, and the trade here muft 
proportionably advance. 
Ganal Creek c runs up into the land from the North or Severn Ganal 
Sea, as it is fometimes called, about two miles, where it meets the alias 
River, which rifes in the parifli of Newlan, near Trerice, the pa- " * 
ternal feat of Lord Arundel of Trerice. This water was more con- 
flderable formerly, but, like our other little havens on the North 
Sea, has buffered much from the plenty of Sea-fand, with which the 
North Channel fo much abounds, that every ftorm from the Weft 
and North throws it in more or lefs upon the creeks and havens, 
and in many places upon the hills. At the mouth of the Ganal 
ftands a little village, called Carantoc, from the Saint to whom the 
parifli Church is dedicated. Tradition lays, that it was antiently a 
large town, and very probably it was fo, the religious houfe here 
being the refidence of a Dean and nine Prebends. Sloops of thirty 
tons only can frequent this Creek. 
We proceed next to the greatefl River on the North of Cornwall, River Alan, 
at prefent commonly called the Camel (that is, the crooked River), 
from the many turnings in its courfe, efpecially from the lharp 
angle it makes near Bodman, where, from a South South Weft courfe 
of twelve miles or more, it bears for the Sea North North Weft. 
^ V> as ca fi e d in Leland s time* Dunmere; that is, the Water 
ate fils ; and the bridge over it, near Bodman, is ftill called 
unmere Biidge. It was alfo “ called Cablan in fome hiftories s 
but this is only a contraction of Cabm Alan, that is, the crooked 
, an ’ ( not Gambian, as in Camden h ,) the b being inlerted before 
tern by the Cornifti idiom 1 ; for Alan is indeed the proper name *. 
T i 1S ^ ver r ^* es a ^ out: two miles North of the borough of Camelford, 
w ere its banks are famous for two conflderable battles; the firft 
in voce). Here it is Kanal or Ganal, the k being 
often changed into g. 
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