Instead,the residents failed to comply fully with the law;and by 1699 Jamestown had collapsed into a pile of rubble with only three or four habitable houses.

• 然而，当地居民并没有完全遵照这条法令行事，到1699年，詹姆斯镇已倒塌成一片瓦砾，只剩下三、四幢可居住的房屋。