thorou

Updated: May 19, 2025

From Carew's account of the game as formerly played, we may judge that a very extensive ground was used; he speaks of the players as taking "their way over hills, dales, hedges, ditches yea, and thorou bushes, briers, mires, plashes, and rivers whatsoever so as you shall sometimes see twenty or thirty lie tugging together in the water, scrambling and scratching for the ball.

Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon - The Cornwall Coast