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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, 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 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. Itis 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 Rocke, 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 three 
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 
Tlands.” 
