Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . nce and make it readily accessible to visitors. A short distance farther north the road passes near the famousWalsingham place, which has some interesting historic associations,and it is also an interesting locality for the geologist and naturalist. The picturesque old stone house, not now occu])ied, is situated * This boarding house was our headquarters in 1901. We found this place anexcellent one for our purposes. It is verj- near Harrington Sound on one sideand Castle Harbor on the other. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 439 c
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . nce and make it readily accessible to visitors. A short distance farther north the road passes near the famousWalsingham place, which has some interesting historic associations,and it is also an interesting locality for the geologist and naturalist. The picturesque old stone house, not now occu])ied, is situated * This boarding house was our headquarters in 1901. We found this place anexcellent one for our purposes. It is verj- near Harrington Sound on one sideand Castle Harbor on the other. A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 439 close to the shore of Walsinghara Bay.* (Fig. 15.) It is consider-ably out of repair and some of the outbuildings are in ruins. It isone of the oldest houses on the islands, for it is said to have beenbuilt about 1670-80, but it has been considerably altered and repairedwithin 50 years. It is pointed out to visitors as the house of thepoet, Thomas Moore, who really resided at St. Georges for aboutfour months, from January to May, 1804. He had been appointed. Figure 15.—Walsingham ; Mangrove Trees on the left side. to an official position there, which did not prove satisfactory to him,so he delegated his duties to a deputv and returned home, aftervisiting the United States and Canada. He may have been anoccasional or a frequent guest at the Walsingham House, for the * This Bay was so named in 1609, in honor of Mr. Walsingham, coxswain ofthe Sea Venture, who discovered it. It is related by Strachy that when thevessel, which the shipwrecked crew had built, finally set sail for Virginia, shegot aground on one of the reefs at the entrance of St. Georges Harbor, causinggreat dismay, but Mr. Walsingham soon got her clear of the reef. When sheestrucke upon the Rocke, the Cock-swayne, one Walsingham, beeing in the Boate,with a quicke spirit (whe«i wee were all amazed, and our hearts failed) did giveway stoutly, and so by Gods goodnesse hee led it out at three fadome, and thi-eefadom
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