AD THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1588. 



There are two houses adjoyning to the Church, on 

 each side one, which serve for kitchins to dresse meate 

 in, with necessary roomes and houses of office : the cover- 

 ings of the said houses are made flat, whereon is planted 

 a very faire vine, and through both the saide houses 

 runneth a very good and holsome streame of fresh 

 water. 



There is also right over against the saide Church a 

 faire causey made up with stones reaching unto a valley 

 by the seaside, in which valley is planted a garden, wherein 

 grow great store of pompions and melons : And upon 

 the saide causey is a frame erected whereon hange two 

 bells wherewith they ring to Masse ; and hard unto it 

 is a Crosse set up, which is squared, framed and made 

 very artificially of free stone, whereon is carved in cyphers 

 what time it was builded, which was in the yeere of our 

 Lord 1 57 1. 



This valley is the fairest and largest lowe plot in all 



the yland, and it is marveilous sweete and pleasant, and 



planted in every place either with fruite trees, or with 



herbes. There are fig trees, which beare fruit continually, 



& marveilous plentifully : for on every tree you shal 



have blossoms, greene figs, and ripe figs, all at ones : and 



it is so all the yere long : the reason is that the yland 



The great store standeth SO neere the Sunne. There be also great store 



of divers q{ lymon trees, orange trees, pomegranate trees, pome- 



^«^5 ^ / ^^^ citron trees, date trees, which beare fruite as the fig trees 



do, and are planted carefully and very artificially with 



very pleasant walkes under and betweene them, and the 



saide walkes bee overshadowed with the leaves of the 



trees : and in every voyde place is planted parceley, 



[III. 824.] sorell, basill, fenell, annis seede, mustard seede, radishes, 



and many speciall good hearbes : and the fresh water 



brooke runneth through divers places of this orchard, and 



may with very small paines be made to water any one tree 



in the valley. 



This fresh water streame commeth from the tops of 

 the mountaines, and falleth from the clifFe into the valley 



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