The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-03

lace OF the ground at the loca-
ton. After making agreements
with owners of the property, Zev-
ely began digging. His first
thought was the possibility of
finding buried treasure. After
much digging no treasure was To-
Gated but several fragments of
unusually large bricks were found.
This spot was apparently the
foundations of a residence many
years ago.
Aycock Brown has sent some
of the bricks to the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D. C.
for an opinion as to their origin.
The report is awaited with inter-
est.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to quote here the letter writ
ten by Francis Yardley to his
friend John Farrar in England I'M
der date of May 9Th, 1854 about
his journeys, and the house he
built, and which is as follows:
Virginia, Lime Haven,
this 9Th May, 1854
Sir,
My brother Argol Yardley hath
received many letters from you,
with animadversions and instruc-
tions to encourage him in the
prosecution of better designs than
that of tobacco, but myself never
any: yet the honour / bear you,
for your fervent affections to this
my native country, commands me
in some measure to give you an
account of what the Lord hath in
short time brought to light, by
the means of so weak a minister
as myself; namely, an ample dis
covery of South Virginia or Car
DINA, the which we find a most
fertile, gallant, rich soil, flourish
ing in all the abundance of ma
ture, especially in the rich null
berry and vine, a serene air, and
temperate cline, and experiment
tally rich in precious minerals;
and lastly, may say, parallel
with any place for rich land, and
stately timbers of all sorts; a
place indeed unacquainted with
our Virginia's nipping frosts, no
winter, or very little cold to be
found there. Thus much for the
country; the manner and means in
the discovery follows: In septem-
Der last, young man, trader for
beavers, being bound out to the
adjacent parts to trade, by acct
| dent his sloop left him; and he,
supposing she had been gone to
Roanoke, hired a small boat, and
with one of his company left with
him came to crave my license to
go to look after his sloop, and
sought some relief of provisions of
me; the which granting, he set
forth with three more in company,
one being of my family, the others
were my neighbours. They enter
ed it at Caratoke,* ten leagues
to the southwark of Cape Henry,
! and so went to Roanoke Island;
where, or near thereabouts, they
found the great commander of
those parts with his Indians a.
hunting, who received them civil
ly, and Showed them the ruins of
Sir Walter Raleigh's fort, from
whence l received a sure token of
their being there. After some days
spent to and fro in the country,
] the young man the interpreter
prevailed with the great man, and
his war-captains, and great man
of another province, and some 9TH
en- Indians, to come in and make
their peace with the English,
which they willingly eondescend-
ed unto; and for the favour and
relief | extended to the interpre-
ter in his necessity, in gratitude
he brought them to me at my
house, where they abode a week,
and Showed much civility of be-
haviour. In the interim of which
time, hearing and seeing the chill
dren read and write, of his own
free voluntary motion he asked
me, (after a most solid pause, we
two being alone), whether /
would take his only son, having
but one, and teach him to do as
our children, namely in his terms,
to speak out of the book, and to
make a writing; which motion l
most heartily embraced; and with
expressions of love, and many
presents, crediting with cloaths,
dismissed him. At his departure
he expressed himself DESTROYS to
serve that God the Englishmen
served, and that his child might
be so brought up; promising to
bring him in to me in four moons,
in which space my occasions call
ing me to Maryland, he came
| once himself. and sent twice IN