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BELLASIS, George Hutchins (1778-1822)
Plantation House, the Country Residence of the Governor.

Used with the assistance and permission of Professor Barry Weaver, University of Oklahoma.

Plantation House, the Country Residence of the Governor.

VIEW No. IV.

View No. IV. is Plantation-House, a large modern-built edifice, the country residence of the Governor, situated in the most fertile and beautiful part of the Island. It is approached through a handsome iron gate, on each side of which is a neat lodge. Adjoining is a telegraph, which communicates with all the forts and out-posts. The grounds are laid out with great taste ; a variety of oriental plants and shrubs grow intermixed with those of the more northern regions : the magnolia, minosa, myrtles thirty feet high, bamboo, gum tree, and cabbage tree, with the laurel, yew, cypress, fir, and oak ; and also aloes in successive blossom. Plantation-House is three miles and a half from the Castle in St. James's Valley.

[Extract from Bellasis, George Hutchins. Views of St Helena. London: John Tyler, 1815.]

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