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Choptank Valley Lighthouse Ile de Marie |
(1792, Francis Greenway) In the final year of the penal government, Lord B had the convicts dig by hand what became known as the Choptank Valley, a 100 metre deep, 2 mile long holding pit for the leaders of the Pea Soup Incident. The crowning thorn of this brutal folly was the Lighthouse - a flax-fuelled searchlight used by guards to survey the inmates of this pit. The source of fuel was not Australis' own native hemp but an introduced and later more infamous variety of the plant. Very quickly on the first night of the lighthouse's operation, the guards left their post in search of something to munch on, allowing the convicts to quickly inhale the seeds of revolutionary fervour and overthrow their gaolers.
Sa-Su Noon-5pm. Choptank Close, Dewdney, Ile de Marie. |
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