'It is seated against the north, on the declining of a hill in the midst of a deer park, near a narrow entrance through which the salt water breaketh up into the country to shape the greatest part of the haven. The house is builded square, with a round turret at each end, garretted on the top, and a hall rising in the midst above the rest, which yieldeth a stately sound as you enter the same. In summer the opened casements admit a refreshing coolness, in winter, the two closed doors exclude all offensive coldness; the parlour and dining chamber give you a large and diversified prospect of land and sea, to which underlie St. Nicholas Island, Plymouth fort, and the towns of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Millbrook and Saltash.'