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the morning, crofs’d the Mountain, on which I law thofe wonder- 
ful Ferns defcribed hereafter, and obferv'd the Trees cover’d with 
the Phafeoli, called Cocos, of which Snuff-Boxes are made, Going 
over the Moneque Savanna 1 gather’d the fenfible Plant, and came to 
St. Anns. , 
I obferved the Ruins of the Town called Sevilla, among which a 
Church buile by Peter Martyr of Angleria, of a fort of Freeftone 
(to be had near this City) and Bricks, A Pavement was found 
two Miles from this Church, the City was fo large, it had a for- 
tified Caftle, the Walls of Pebbles and Brick, four Foot thick; ic 
was and is a good Port. There was formerly here one great Su- 
gar work ata pretty diftance, the Mill whereof went by Water, 
which was brought fome Miles thither. The Axletree of this is to 
be icen intite arthis day. This Town is now Captain Hemmings's 
Plantation. Phe Church was not finifhed, it was twenty Paces 
broad, and thirty Paces long: there were two rows of Pillars 
within, over the place where the Altar was to be, were fome Car- 
vings under the ends of the Arches, It was built of a fore of Stone, 
between Freeftone and Marble caken out of a Quarry about a Mile u 
in the Hills ;the Houfes and Foundations ftand for feveral Miles along 
and the ground towards the Country is nifing. Captain Hemmings 
told me, he fometimes found Pavements under his Canes, three Foot 
covered with Earth, and feveral times Wells, and fometimes Bu- 
rial-Stones finely Cut. There are the beginnings of a great 
Houfe call’d a Monaftery, but Ifuppofe the Houle was defign’d 
for the Governour. There were two Coats of Arms lay by, not 
fet up; a Ducal one, and that of a Count, I fuppofe belonging to 
Columbus his Family, the Proprietors of the Ifland. There had 
been raifed a Tower, part Brick, and parc Hewn Stone, as al- 
fo feveral Battlements on it, and other lower Buildings not fi- 
nifhed. At the Church lie feveral arched Stones to compleat it, 
which had never been put up, but Jay among the Canes. The 
rows of Pillars within were for the moft part plain. In the 
time of the Spaniards it was thought the Furopeans had been 
cut off by the Indians, and fo the Church left usfifhed. When 
the Englifh took the Ifland, the ruins of this City were fo over. 
grown with Wood, that they were all turn’d black, nay; I faw 
a Mammee, or Baltard Mammee-Tree grow within the Walls 
of the Tower, fo high as that it muft have been a very large 
Gun could kill a Bird on the top of it, and the moft part of the 
‘Timber fell’d off this place, when it was planted, was fixty Foot 
or more long. A great many Wells are on this pround, In 
the Bay, under this is a very fine Harbour, made by a Reef rum, 
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