View from Spanish Point, Bermuda, showing the dockyard, and the fleet at anchor in Grassy Bay, 1862. Engraving from a Sketch by G. Remington, jun. 'The dockyard, Diadem, Nile, Immortalité, Melpomene, St. George, Hero, Aboukir, interest attaches just now to this great naval station of ours in the situated in the North Atlantic, 580 miles from Cape Hatteras, North America, the nearest point of land, and 645 miles from Atwood's Cays, the nearest of the West India Islands. There is not an insular group in the whole world so protected by natur
View from Spanish Point, Bermuda, showing the dockyard, and the fleet at anchor in Grassy Bay, 1862. Engraving from a Sketch by G. Remington, jun. 'The dockyard, Diadem, Nile, Immortalité, Melpomene, St. George, Hero, Aboukir, interest attaches just now to this great naval station of ours in the situated in the North Atlantic, 580 miles from Cape Hatteras, North America, the nearest point of land, and 645 miles from Atwood's Cays, the nearest of the West India Islands. There is not an insular group in the whole world so protected by nature from the effects of a boisterous ocean as the Bermudas. They are surrounded by dangerous rocky render them very difficult of sums have been expended in order to render [Ireland Island] a strong post for a naval and military depot. The whole face of the island has been all the ingenuity of art and the labour of a large convict establishment have been employed in strengthening this important population of the Bermudas is about 11,000, comprising whites, coloured, and free blacks. These islands have from the first settlement belonged to Great '. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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