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first covered with a thick layer of tenacious mud and then whitewashed.^[1] Lime was made in large quantities with ease, on account of the masses of oyster shells to be found in the soil or in the rivers.^[2] Bullock remarked on the excellence of this material in Virginia, its superiority to the like in use in the mother country being due to the fact that English lime was manufactured from chalk and was in consequence thin and less enduring.^[3] In some cases, the walls were scaled with riven boards and the partitions lined with wainscoting. This was observed in the house of Colonel Daniel Parke of York.

1. Leah and Rachel, p. 18, Force’s Historical Tracts, vol. III.
2. New Description of Virginia, p. 7, Force’s Historical Tracts, vol. II. See also Glover, in Philo. Trans. Royal Soc., 1676-1678, vol. XI-XII, p. 635.
3. Bullock’s Virginia, p. 3.