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close to the shore of Walsingham Bay.* (Fig. 15.) It is consider- 

 ably out of repair and some of the outbuildings are in ruins. It is 

 one of the oldest houses on the islands, for it is said to have been 

 built about 1670-80, but it has been considerably altered and repaired 

 within 50 years. It is pointed out to visitors as the house of the 

 poet, Thomas Moore, who really resided at St. George's for about 

 four months, from January to May, 180-1. 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 deputy and returned home, after 

 visiting the United States and Canada. He may have been an 

 occasional or a frequent guest at the Walsingham House, for the 



* This Bay was so named in 1609, in honor of Mr. Walsingham, coxswain of 

 the " Sea Venture," who discovered it. It is related by Strachy that when the 

 vessel, which the shipwrecked crew had built, finally set sail for Virginia, she 

 got aground on one of the reefs at the entrance of St. George's Harbor, causing 

 great dismay, but Mr. Walsingham soon got her clear of the reef. " When shee 

 strucke upon the Eocke, the Cock-swayne, one Walsingham, beeing in the Boate, 

 with a quicke spirit (when wee were all amazed, and our hearts failed) did give 

 way stoutly, and so by Gods goodnesse hee led it out at three fadome, and ttu^ee 

 fadome and a half water. The wind served us easily all that day and the next 

 (God be ever praysed for it) to the no little joy of us all, we got cleere of the 

 Hands." 



