. 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. 52 A. JtJ. Verrill—IVie Bermuda Islands. 464 common as a fossil in the seolian limestone all over the islands, even on the highest hills, and is often seen loose, where the soft rock has decayed. More often it may be seen carried about on the backs of the large land hermit-crabs, whose ancestors, many thousands of years ago, carried these same shells inland f
. 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. 52 A. JtJ. Verrill—IVie Bermuda Islands. 464 common as a fossil in the seolian limestone all over the islands, even on the highest hills, and is often seen loose, where the soft rock has decayed. More often it may be seen carried about on the backs of the large land hermit-crabs, whose ancestors, many thousands of years ago, carried these same shells inland from the shores to the ancient sand hills. (See chapter on Geology and figure.) But this occurrence of the broken shells in the kitchen refuse, would indicate that this West Indian "Whelk" was living in these waters in 1812. (See Part III, ch. 32, and ch. 46, Geology.). Figure 22a.—The Land Hermit-crab {Cenobita diogenes) carrying fossil marine shell (Livona) on its back. Part II.—Physiography, including Meteorology, etc. 1.— Geographical Position. The dry land of the Bermudas is mostly included between N. Lat. 82" 15' and 32° 23' and W. Long. 64° 39' and 64° 53'. But the reef areas extend between 32° 12' and 32° 30', N. Lat. ; and between 64° 34' and 65° 02' W. Long. These islands are remarkable for their isolation from any other lands, and the depth of the ocean around them. I am indebted to Professor S. L. Penfield for the following mea- surements of distances on the maps made according to his new method of stereographic projection. They are believed to be much more accurate than those hitherto given : Bermuda to New York, 675 nautical miles. " Cape Hatteras, 575 " " " Martha's Vineyard, 615 " " Cape Cod, 620 Cape Sable, N. S., 675 " Great Abaca Is., Bahamas, 715 " " " Porto Rico, 880 " "'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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