Show y BERMUDA I A Aw V w w s T D r EA G 0 g jg j 1 M DI f YOi V VIt It f G L f wv a II CAa A M YM 4 CI Matt Y Map Showing Location of the tho Bermudas With Inset Map of the Islands Prepared by the National Society ashington V w D C C Bermudas Island outposts ts tsIn Bill T In the Atlantic of the North American continent tease have long been a resort for sojourners from the thc eastern United States State Slates but never before ha have ve they been so speed fly reached from the mainland as re- re recently recently re recently when wIlen the trip was as made from flew ew l lork lorb by seaplane In about eight hours fi Him mg time Boats Bonts oats from r NewYork v e York require 43 18 S hours for the vo voyage age In the Pacific where here there Is much competition the Bermudas would be n a negligible group but In Inthe Inthe Inthe the almost Atlantic they hale e placed pIa ed an Important Import role They form a microcosm the catastrophes the vicissitudes the political ceo cco and rell religious lous controversies and the development de of whose people as asa asa a solitary unit far out to reflect much of the world history of the ng high speaking peoples They are a group of what are arc said to be islands blinds one for every e ery day da daIn In fn the year north latitude 3 32 degrees and west wes e t longitude 64 degrees There are only he fire Ih e Important Islands and andall andall all of the group are so close cloe together that those e capable of use are united Ly by bridges and ciu ewas s so as to ghe to the sojourner In his Ills dunes eq the Impression that they are but one island with large indenting bays Lays and Strung together they have ha the form a 8 with the stem pointed to the northeast and the cut cute curse e of the hook to the southwest From the nOI northeast end to the point of the hook hoob you can piece out a cun cursing Ing drys rl e a 22 2 or 23 miles lon long and the width of ot the land from sea Fea to sea h which you ou e dri e will III hardly enge 8 a mile The superficial area of the whole hole group Is 19 19 miles The Islands are nearl nearly COO GOO tulles miles from Cap Cape the nearest I mainland they are miles from Charleston S C opposite which they lie In the Atlantic they are nearly miles rui from I 1 New ew e lork fork and about CiO 50 miles futher from Halifax They ate aie al e about miles from the nearest of the West Indies they are 30 miles from the southern or southeastern edge of that riser nver rn er ot of warm Um water fathoms deep tow low lug ng 0 over oser er an ocean depth Z 2500 GOO from the gulf of Mexico to New Ne Bruns Brunswick Brunswick wick ICh Nova 1 10 0 a Scotia and he beyond ond to rU f European u ro an shores which Weh we call tile the Gulf Gult stream Pulverized Shellon Shell on on Volcanic Rock They are It regular hills and ridges of puh l j shells 1 reaching In some ome places to a height of 50 feet drifted and deposited by the wind on the top of a mount linous column of rock roch rising from the floor toor of the sea three thre miles belo v This 1 hi peak Is a solitary one ene In all that l art of the Atlantic ocean It IL has as boon been ered co by this wind turn torn pd ad d limestone and a thinner plaster of l coral rock After the expedition of oC o Il Ii M S Challener on her ier er scientific of the Atlantic ocean ocein bottom and Islands In III 1873 1813 had disclosed ds the lonely column upon which the ner Ber Bermudas rested there was as an effort to whit what seemed f a pile of coral corll rook roh three thice ee miles h In tLe sea eca with Ith h s conclusion that HI the lie coral en cn n a al would not work orb more than thom tl fathom below the A desire t a to find ind fl flesh fies h water viator ater on the islands led to the Hie sini Ing of a well ell 1 ellI 00 I l feet deep and while It did dill not tIring wr w 11 v s is q sought It greatly grit u a lot loi of pu puzzled S scientific men D a menD mena disclosing that the coral rock menI and I Ime t lie wire were l I mere cap to what Ilat was 13 an nn old o sticking Its cia tt red red tOI toll tor up to within less than one onet t ou one oue mi 11 nd d I f f et et of the shining SUI surface face lit of th the translucent f c The top of t tl Is la undersea mountain i much ter re in superficial area than that thaI of or tl ti tie e a visible risible Islands but it H It Ii lh e eerie eerie- Of I eo o cro crowned with Ith coral corali ind nd limestone which protrude In dan ernes r on tile the north west et and t andt acs of ll tl e a Islands as far as eight r I tel ter mlles miles mile from their shores shore f pe pep peering ing IlIg nho above e the SUI Cace at others other king lu-king just Jut beneath One hue owl need not say sa tint that such sueh a n sHun situa situation tion makes an place for ships to reach and safely land rind f ind tints tills Is an nn In in fu her history Bermuda Is all by herself In the scientific and naturalist world orld Her Ber soil soli which Is s red Is nothing but the result of the working of ot the weather cather catheron on the limestone and coral rock Th These se Islands came from the wind Ind and drift and currents of the seas As one writer says Probably we could not select a more perfect example of cur current current current Bermudas rent formed Islands than the Bermudas das This 1 origin has turned the closest attention of natural scientists to these shads and brought out from them many articles and volumes on the ge- ge geology ge zoology 10 Ichthyology meteor and aDd the flora fora and fa fauna uno of this little punctuation point on the sur surface surface surface face of the Atlantic While tit hiie we cannot entirely exclude from the enthusiasm and prolific ac th Ity of or our scientific men the mo mo- moth motive th tive e which the charm and bodily corn com fort Cort of the Islands furnished for these expeditions thither the manifest an nn exceptional Interest on their part pirt In n this tiny spot on the worlds orld s and oceans ocean's SUI which the peculiar history of Its creation has Justified Some of ot the most fruitful sources of the spread of life animal and Sege vegetable ege table tallIe are wind In 11 current and bIrds and here we e litH have hale e the result of them all In an Isolated form so set apart as to permit the most satisfactory study studs of their results I I Tile The turtles must In fn old times have been of huge size one It n was as said was as large enough to give ghe gh e a good meal from Its meat to fifty men and the eggs and the oil of such monsters were equally useful There are tur ties there still sUII but they ha have lase e been discouraged In their expansive e Ions Hons and do not furnish forth a mar marriage marriage feast as generously as In the dawn of civilization In that little corn com comI New Varieties of Life Flourish The Bermudas are the land ot of adopted nath nativity Ity They are most hos hospitable to new varieties of life Some enterprising grower grosser gro er of plants Inti 0 a told toad to take tabe care of the In Insects Insects n sects which were troubling him trim fn n his garden and though tills this was as ony only In the latter part of the last century one runs across everywhere c er where frequent frequente e Idene of these Immigrants Very early In the settlement and before 1620 1020 a vessel vesel brou brought it some en enterprising enterprising rats which with orth worthy of a better cause multi multiplied multiplied plied until they ravaged ra ag d the Islands ate me e ever eer er tiling thing In ID sight em swam scam am In great multitudes from one island to another leasing lea havoc oc In theIr train Cats Cuts were sere Introduced hut but to no Im Immediate mediate purpose e Len L the fish took part In resisting the rats and man manof of the Ule finny tinny tI tube tilbe Ibe were caught c with rats In their stomachs Suddenly they disappeared as fiS ties the had conic come and left nothing but a plague of cats with their night blooming character as r r reminder of this rodent rodents s Lovely Flowers and Climate The luxuriance and wealth of color of the floia foia of the Bermudas have hale nt at the poets who oho ho chase ha e sung their beauties The purple with It Its al Ing shades In and out of the sun sunlight sunlight light Is la entrancing In its beauty uly an and w one Into the grounds of the titi government house climbing over the smoothly cut walls ails of coral corll through which the v bite road mal males es its way n to tIle the home borne of the hos EO The 1 he oleanders are so fine and tO so gorgeous in their thur hUe hues that It has lias been suggested that these be he called the Oleander hl Coffee cot cot- cotton cotton cot cotton ton and tobacco are of growth It m in ly ny not rel-al rel bons In the minds of the youthful to tos tosi s sax that In no place does docs the castor oil pl p p iut but grow n a o o-e o- o 1 i than here Zhe climate of Bermuda lias linea r ml mat mum temperature of abO t 83 do es dugre-es grees a minimum of about IS 48 degrees DIH and a mean of ot about 70 degrees ls this mild assists the of es esculent esculent plants and roots and md promotes early growth of oC onions car carrots carrots carrots rots tomatoes and as us V as III lily v bulb bulbs and arrowroot anew loot the last lost h two 0 have hale hD C not been tul fat ful of Ia late to |