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AMERICAN FOREvSTRY 



A Century Plant. 



Alpine emerald hue, in whose depths 

 close observation discloses bright colored 

 fish and odd sea plants. Stylactic caves 

 with their fairy figments abound. On 

 the South shore during a storm, crested 

 waves roll in over the hidden reefs, and 

 dash spray high over the cathedral 

 rocks which have been worn away by 

 the constant erosion into arch and 

 minaret of dainty pattern. 



From the reports of these wonders 

 by the early navigators and from the 



shipwreck of Sir George Sommers here in 

 1609 in an effort to colonize Jamestown, 

 Shakespeare was no doubt furnished 

 with the motive for The Tempest. In 

 history, the part played by this mid- 

 ocean refuge for mariners, in the early 

 colonization of Virginia, in the Revolu- 

 tionary War and as a refuge for blockade 

 running in the Civil War, reads like a 

 romance. 



As one approaches the northern end 

 from the sea, the islands appear scat- 



