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Chubb's Spring. — This is a fine spring at the head of James 

 Valley, discharging hourly 3,600 gallons of pure water. It is the 

 chief source of the water supply of Jamestown. It takes its name 

 from Chubb a soldier who landed with Governor Blackmore in 1678. 

 From Record, March, 1682 : " Edward Chubb allowed half an acre 

 a little below Peak Hill and High Waterfall. Chubb's Rock, where 

 he was killed in 1683, is near Rupert's Valley ; the great rollers of 

 1846 were so high and of such force that they split the wall of the 

 battery on Chubb's rock, and swept the ground from it into the 

 sea. Such force had been recorded before, and in 1737, 12th Nov. 

 there was a violent surf ; for the records relate that a gun or a large 

 piece of iron ordnance was washed off the top of Chubb's rook (a 

 demi culverin 43 cwt. which was afterward recovered in three 

 fathoms)." 



