. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 443 A. M Verrill—The Ber'tmida Islands. 31 occasion, at least, they saved a large number of the colonists from starvation (1615). But the birds were killed and robbed so reck- lessly and cruelly that they were soon exterminated and no relics of them remain now, except in the name of the island. Capt. John Smith, in his General History of Virginia, ed. of 1629
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 443 A. M Verrill—The Ber'tmida Islands. 31 occasion, at least, they saved a large number of the colonists from starvation (1615). But the birds were killed and robbed so reck- lessly and cruelly that they were soon exterminated and no relics of them remain now, except in the name of the island. Capt. John Smith, in his General History of Virginia, ed. of 1629, states that the egg-birds and cahows were all gone, even at that time. The sand flats that border this island on both sides are, at low- tide, excellent localities for collecting numerous varieties of marine animals that inhabit such sandy places in shallow water. A few Mangroves and Blackjack trees grow here along the shore, close to the road. (See plate Ixxiv, fig. 1.) St. George's is a quaint old town with many very narrow and orooked streets and odd-looking buildings, many of them very old. It is said that the narrowness of the streets (fig. 16) is due to their having been laid out before horses and carts were introduced here. During the first fifty years of the colon}^, all the highways were required to be only 12 feet wide for the same reason. The old St. George Hotel, facing the square, is said to be one of the oldest buildings on the islands. Its great beams of hewn cedar, some of them about 14 inches square, are still sound, though the building is supposed to be over 200 years Figure 16.—Ancient Narrow Street in St. George's. It looks much more like some old town of southern Europe than like anything American, It was the first place settled on the islands, in 1612, and was the capital for about 200 years. It is partly situated along the water front of a commodious harbor and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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