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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



As a glance at the map will show (Map 1), the Bermudas consist of 

 a chain of about half a dozen islands so grouped that the whole bears a 

 fancied resemblance to a gauntlet. The broad wrist region at the north- 

 east is made up of St. David's, Smith's and St. George's islands and a 

 part of the main, or Bermuda, island, the rest of which stands for the 

 hand, the thumb and the first joints of the fingers, the remaining 

 joints of the fingers being represented by Somerset and Ireland 

 islands. The whole length of the group from northeast to southwest is 

 about fifteen miles, and the width is usually a mile or at most two 

 miles; in many places it is much less. A fairly continuous ridge 

 occupies the axis of the islands mentioned. Besides these larger 

 islands, there are numerous smaller ones (Fig. 4), so that it may well be 

 that there is, as claimed, an island for every day in the year. The larger 

 islands are so indented by bays and sounds that it is evident they will 



Fig. 2. Front St., Hamilton. U. S. Consulate in the Distance. Photograph by L. J. Cole. 



in time become divided up into smaller ones, and thus add to the exist- 

 ing number. The largest of the bodies of water on the north that seem 

 to have eaten their way into the land masses is Castle Harbor (Map 2). 

 This lagoon is from two to three miles in diameter, and communicates 

 with the open sea on the southeast by several passages separating 

 from each other as many small islands, and with a great northern 

 lagoon by means of a long narrow arm of the sea called Ferry Beach. 

 Connected with Ferry Eeach at its northeasterly end is St. George's 

 Harbor, which affords an excellent and well protected anchorage. 

 Southwest from Castle Harbor, and separated from it by only a nar- 

 row ridge, is Harrington Sound, which looks like an inland lake (Fig. 

 5) ; it is a mile wide, two miles long, and in places sixty or seventy feet 

 deep. This has but one communication with the sea above ground, 



