[Footnote 2: Page 3.--"Nothing remains of this famous settlement but
the ruins of a church tower covered with ivy, and some old tombstones.
The tower is crumbling year by year, and the roots of trees have
cracked the slabs, making great rifts across the names of the old
Armigers and Honourables. The place is desolate with its washing waves
and flitting sea-fowl, but possesses a singular attraction. It is one
of the few localities which recall the first years of American history;
but it will not recall them much longer. Every distinctive feature of
the spot is slowly disappearing. The river encroaches year by year, and
the ground occupied by the original huts is already submerged." Cooke's
"Virginia" ('American Commonwealths,' 1884), p. 19.]