Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls diary
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Granada. 19 May, 1891. Having an interest in the island, sent out my plants to all their estates of Transandine. All died except two at Grand Bras, and these are not thriving. Hen McKendry, a revenue officer who was fond of botany, begged for the two remaining plants; in return he drove them. The plants were given to him, and he planted them at Bellevue where after some time they thrived. Some time ago, when prices were high, the produce of the female of these two trees gave 35 shillings. Leaving O'Woll's place we rode to St Davids, then an situated near the R.C. Church, and the Court House and Police Station. But there is no village, and the it seems absurd to put up a Court House in a practically uninhabited spot. At the time of the pirate marauders, there was a thriving little town on the coast called St Davids. This town was conveniently situated, and it was the sea port for that part of the coast. But Pir don (illegible) his fellow rebel, and French allies one day appeared before St Davids and burnt it to the ground. The houses were never rebuilt, and the town is now no more. Had, however, the Govt built the Court House on the site of the old town, in the opinion of many persons a town would soon have grown up around it and in time the town might have been regenerated. We found the court road very hot in the afternoon sun after a good lunch, and we pushed on pretty quickly.