Bermuda Past and Present: A Descriptive and Historical Account, of the Somers Islands (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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North American continent. Few islands are more supremely isolated, but their remoteness from other land is counterbalanced by their proximity to important trade routes, and so they constitute in the scheme of geographical distribution a haven of refuge, a place for ships to refit and coal, and for men to rest, after a struggle in heavy weather.

Bermuda, to use the shorter term, calls to the deep, and its call extends also to shores whence men sail for pleasure. It has much that is quaint and beautiful to offer them. An archipelago of a hundred odd islands and rocks - less than twenty square miles in all - standing amid clear water of exquisite hues; a place of fair skies and sunshine arid flowers, blessed with an equable and salubrious climate, untouched by fog or frost, and wholly free from tropical fevers - such in brief is Bermuda. On shore fairy-like scenery, caves of crystal, limestone roads white as bleached linen, curious trees and shrubs; in the water, gardens as luxuriant as those which take their life from the soil, and a host of fishes, all coloured to correspond with the submarine growth which gives them food and a home.

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