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NATURAL HISTORY 
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CORNWALL. 
CHAP. I. 
7 'he General Defcription. 
C O R N W A L L, the wefternmoft County of Britain, in its form 
refembling a Cornucopia, has the Briftol Chanel (a branch of 
St. George’s) on the North, and on the South the Britilh Chanel ; 
which two parts of the Ocean meeting as it were in a point at 
the Weft, enclofe all but the Eaftern part of Cornwall, where it 
butts upon Devonftiire. In the parifti of Morwinftow, about four 
Miles from the North Chanel, is a tenement call'd Shorfton, on 
the outfkirts of which is a large Common called Shorfton-moor, 
divided from Bradworthy Parifti in Devonftiire by a hedge for about 
forty land-yards to the Eaft, then by a hedge of about a quarter 
of a Mile long, from the Parifti of Hartland, Devon ; then it butts 
on the parifti of Wellcombe, Devon, from which it is divided alfo 
by a hedge of about a mile in length, and this hedge is therefore 
the limit of Shorfton Tenement, to the Eaft and North of the 
parifti of Morwinftow, and of the County of Cornwall, till you 
come to Gooftiam Mill, where a fmall brook call’d Marfland Water, 
that riles near Woolleigh Burrows takes place and divides Cornwall 
from Devon along to the North Sea. All the reft of Cornwall (with 
a few Exceptions to be taken notice of in their proper place) is 
divided from Devon by the river Tamar, which rifes on the very 
ridge of Shorfton Moor, about half a mile Eaft of Woolleigh 
Burrows, and when it pafles out of the Tenement of Shorfton 
commences the general Boundary of Cornwall towards the Eaft, 
till it joins the Ocean near Plymouth after a courfe, nearly South, 
of about forty miles. 
The two moft diftant points of this County are the Eaftern 
angle of the parilh of Morwinftow near the fource of the Tamar, to 
the Eaft, and the Promontory call’d the Land’s-End, in the parifti 
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