Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 243.—Bermuda Flying Fish. S2)ariish Hock. Figure 244.—Ancient inscription on Spanish Eock. after Lefroy. 1879. Ithas been attributed by most writers to Ferdinando Camelo, a native of Por-tugal, who received an abortive charter for the settlement of Bermuda fromthe King of Spain, about 1527. But there is no evidence that he ever visitedthe islands. If the monogram ever stood for his name the C has now dis-appeared by weathering. Quite possibly this has happened. At present,the monogram more resemb^^^s TK or FK. It is more pro
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences . Figure 243.—Bermuda Flying Fish. S2)ariish Hock. Figure 244.—Ancient inscription on Spanish Eock. after Lefroy. 1879. Ithas been attributed by most writers to Ferdinando Camelo, a native of Por-tugal, who received an abortive charter for the settlement of Bermuda fromthe King of Spain, about 1527. But there is no evidence that he ever visitedthe islands. If the monogram ever stood for his name the C has now dis-appeared by weathering. Quite possibly this has happened. At present,the monogram more resemb^^^s TK or FK. It is more probable that it is theonly known ^ecord of the survivors of some disastrous shipwreck in 1543,who may have lived for some time on these islands, and perhaps died only a single individual survived, and he may have lived alone foryears, like Robinson Crusoe. The presence of a cross would ratherexclude the theory that it was left by pirates or This is jjiobably one of the mementoes of the supposed A-isits of the Spanishbefore the English settlement, mentioned by Gov. Butler, in 1619 : Witnessecertaine crosses left erected upon rocks and promontories. He also refers toold Spanish coins that had been found here by the early settlers. The inscription, which was originally deeply cut in the limestone ledge, isgradxially becoming less distinct, due partly to weathering and partly to vandal-ism of visitors. A cast of it is preserved in the Public Library, at Hamilton. X.—The Bermuda Islands : their Scexery, Climate, Produc-tions, Physiography, Xatural History, and Geology ; tvithSketches of their Early History and the Changes Due TO Man.* By Addison E. Yerrill. In the preparation of the following ..escriptive account of the Ber-muda Islands, I have aimed to provide a work that mar meet most ofthe needs of large numbers of persons who go to the islands annuallyfor health, pleasure, or study, and who may wish to learn as much asp
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