SECT. II. 
Dozmery 
Pool. 
SECT. III. 
Swan Pool. 
SECT. IV. 
Lo Pool. 
5 o NATURAL HISTORY 
Four miles North of the church of St. Neot’s, about fourteen 
miles from Loo, on the South Sea, and as many from the head 
lands of St. Gennys, on the North Sea, the waters of the hills 
adjoining gather into a bafon, and make a fmall Lake of about a 
mile in compafs, called Dozmery Pool r : Leland fays, it was 
reckoned fourteen or fifteen fathom deep ; but Mr. Carew, page 1 1 2 
(better informed by experience) fays, that upon tryal, no place in it 
was found deeper than nine feet, and no fifh but Eels. 
Betwixt the parifh of Budoc, in the Hundred of Kerrier, and 
that of Falmouth, a fmall Creek, not half a mile long, nor a 
quarter wide, is fever’d from the fea by a bar of fand and fhingle. 
This is now called the Swan Pool; (from the Swans kept here 
fome years fince by the Killigrews, Lords of the foil) but in Le- 
land’s time 3 , Levine Prifklo, alias Levine Pool. The Eels of this 
water are reckoned extremely good. 
The moft confiderable Lake we have in Cornwall is the Lo Pool, 
betwixt the parifh of Sithney on the Weft, and thofe of Elelfton, 
and Maugan on the Eaft. The Lake is about two miles long, 
and a furlong wide, formed by a bar of pebbles, fand, and fhin- 
gle, forced up againft the mouth of this Creek by the South Weft 
winds * ; the valley here betwixt high lands on each fide giving vent 
to, and thereby increafing the force and velocity of the winds from 
this quarter. This bar dams up the water which comes down prin- 
cipally from the Lo River, till it comes to a ftone bridge, ( from an 
hofpital of the Templars dedicated to St. John) called St. John’s 
Bridge, but is fed alfo in fome meafure, by a few brooks below u . 
Scarce a mile below the bridge, the Lake begins to overfpread the 
whole valley ; and in half a mile more, gaining in depth from 
three to ten feet, makes a little creek into Penros : from this creek 
the pool deepens, and from ten becomes twenty-two and twenty-fix 
feet deep, till it is within a furlong and half of the bar, when it 
rifes gradually from twenty-fix to ten feet at its brim, being a mile 
and quarter long, and a furlong wide at a medium. Not being able 
to proceed farther to the South, the water winds away to the Eaft, 
and fills Carminow Creek, half a mile long, and half a furlong 
wide, at a medium. Thefe are the dimenfions of the Lo-pool in 
fummer, the fuperfluous water draining through the bar into the 
Sea ; but in the winter the whole valley is oftentimes fpread with 
r That is, the meeting or coming together of page no, fays, 
the Lake water, Doz-mer-iiy. u From Penventon and Penrofe on the Weft, 
* Vol. III. page 15. and Nanflow, Negybma, and Carminow, on the 
1 Not the South Eaft, as Leland, Vol. III. Eaftern banks. 
water 
