beene) hee had conquered, euen as Cyrus recompenced Zopirus with the
Citie Babylon [Herodotus], which his policie had recouered. Againe,
the actiuitie of Deuon and Cornishmen, in this facultie of wrastling,
beyond those of other Shires, dooth seeme to deriue them a speciall
pedigree, from that graund wrastler [3] Corineus. Moreouer, vpon the
Hawe at Plymmouth, there is cut out in the ground, the pourtrayture
of two men, the one bigger, the other lesser, with Clubbes in their
hands, (whom they terme Gog-Magog) and (as I haue learned) it is
renewed by order of the Townesmen, when cause requireth, which should
inferre the same to bee a monument of some moment. And lastly the
place, hauing a steepe cliffe adioyning, affordeth an oportunitie to
the fact. But of this too much.

Cornwall is seated (as most men accompt) in the Latitude of fiftie
degrees, and thirtie minutes; and in the Longitude of sixe.

The Shire extendeth in length to about seuentie miles: the breadth,
as almost no where equall, so in the largest place, it passeth not
thirtie, in the middle twentie, and in the narrowest of the West
part, three. The whole compasse may hereby be coniectured.

It bordereth on the East with Deuon, divided therefrom, in most
places, by the ryuer Tamer, which springing neere the North Sea, at
Hartland in Deuon, runneth thorow Plymmouth Hauen, into the South.
For the rest, the maine Ocean sundreth the same, on the North from
Ireland, on the West from the Ilands of Scilley, and on the South from
little Britaine. These borders now thus straightned, did once extend
so wide, as that they enabled their inclosed territorie, with the
title of a kingdome. Polidore Virgil allotteth it the fourth part
of the whole Iland, and the ancient Chronicles report, that Brute