The main edifice, with a
frontage of nearly eighty feet, is only one and a half stories high, and
is overshadowed by a broad projecting roof, which somehow, though in a
very natural way, drops down at the eaves, and forms the covering of a
piazza, twenty-feet in width, and extending across the entire front of
the house. At its south-easterly angle, the roof is truncated, and made
again to form a covering for the piazza, which there extends along a
line of irregular buildings for sixty yards. A portion of the verandah
on this side being enclosed, forms a bowling-alley and smoking-room, two
essential appendages to a planter's residence. The whole structure is
covered with yellow-pine weather boarding, which in some former age was
covered with paint of a grayish brown color. This, in many places, has
peeled off and allowed the sap to ooze from the pine, leaving every here
and there large blotches on the surface, which somewhat resemble the
'warts' I have seen on the trunks of old trees.
The house is encircled by grand, old pines, whose tall, upright stems,
soaring eighty and ninety feet in the air, make the low hamlet seem
lower by the contrast. They have stood there for centuries, their rough,
shaggy coats buttoned close to their chins, and their long, green locks
waving in the wind; but man has thrust his long knife into their veins,
and their life-blood is fast oozing away.
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