Harrison took almost everything he wrote about St Michael's Mount from Leland, Itinerary I, 320, but by rearranging the material has deftly reworked it into a coherent, even stylish, account. However, some of the details probably originated in his own imagination, for instance the doors and windows to be seen under the water - Leland only records that `In the bay betwyxt the Mont and Pensants be found neere the lowe water marke rootes of trees in dyvers places, as a token of the ground wasted.'