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Voyages en anglois et en françois d'A. de la Motraye en diverses provinces (Author: Aubry de la Mottraye)

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The Ship wherein I imbark'd sail'd the 6th. of August, old Style, from Rotterdam to Helvoetsluys where we staid till the 10th. for a fair wind, it then blew so but small, we got however in 4 Days as 7 or 8 Miles beyond Dover and a Calm forced us to anchor towards the Evening in Folton-Bay, we staid there till the 15th. when it began to blow easterly tho weakly & carry'd us under the Island of Wight (the Vectis of the Ancients) where we were becalm'd againe till the 16th. when it blow the fame a new and we got on the 17th. before Noon Licard-Point, their Ocrinum Promentorium, it strenghting we went


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{topic Caps du Lezard et de Cornouaille, Cork, &c.} towards night as far as Cap. Cornwall or Land's End (the Bolearium Prom. of of the Ancients,) avoiding (as much the South West it blew then permitted), the Stags which we were not above a Muskett-Shot from, those Rocks so fatal to the Lord Belhaven1 who was lost here against some Years agoe with all the Men in the Ship which was carrying him to Jamaica, we held the midle betwen other Rocks much distant from them Westward call'd Silly-Islands (their Cassiterides) where Admiral Shovel had met before with the like fate)2 and the Wolf a blind Rock which lies some what under Land's End, with Bresun (their Lisia higher up, there is not much above 50 Miles from hence to Tyntagel. Westerly Wind which blew harder and harder & kept us off from Silli-Rocks might carry us with that from the South against others Rocks call'd the Bishop and his Clarks which are not less dangerous, had it not turn'd some what from South to East as the Night was become dark and the Wind very strong, we lessened our Sails; the next Day morning the weather having cleared up we saw Land on both sides of the Irish Sea viz. those Rocks or rather Saint Davids Head in Wales and the Irish Coast, we got towards the Evening into Cork's Channel were the River Lea, (al. Luvius) discharges in the Irish Sea or rather this seems to go and meet it 6 or 7 Miles higer up. This Channel is broad and long, we pass'd first by the Bullock and Calf (2 small Islands which we left on our right hand) so going on we did some considerable Remains of old Castles which are call'd commonly King John's Castles & thought to have been built by him; there is none now even in Cork kept in a Condition of Defence since the last Reduction of Irland; we came to an Anchor betwen 9 and 10 a'Clock before Cow (a small market Town about 7 Miles below Cork).


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