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A. E. Verrlll — The Bermuda Islands. 



tide, usually 6 to 8 inches, and contains several small islets, some of 

 which are inhabited ; others are wooded and unoccupied. Trunk 

 Island has a stone residence and pleasant grounds with palmettoes 

 and other shade trees upon it. Its clear waters abound in marine 



Figure 13. — Harrington Sound and small Islets. 



life and its cavernous cliffs and shell-sand beaches afford some excel- 

 lent places for zoological collecting, especially since collecting can 

 be done here with a boat when it is too windy to do anything of the 

 kind on the other shores. (Plate lxxi.) 



Near the western end of this sound, and close by the roadside, is 

 " Devils Hole," which is a natural fish-pond connected by subterra- 

 nean crevices with the sea. It was formed by the falling in of the 

 roof of a cavern. It has been enclosed by a wall and stocked with 

 hundreds of fishes, mostly large "Hamlets" or Hamlet Groupers. 

 With these are some Green Angel-fishes, Oldwives or "Turbots"; 

 and a few other kinds. When we visited the place, it also contained 

 several green Sea-turtles. 



It is a sort of gigantic natural aquarium, and is well worth a visit. 

 The fishes are fed so often by visitors that even the large Groupers, 

 some of them a yard long, will take bread and other food from one's 

 hands, but caution is necessary lest they take the fingers also. 

 When food is thrown into the water there is a wonderful scene of 

 wild commotion, and a great display of wide-open red mouths. 



On the south side of the island, not far from here, there is an exten- 

 sive beach of white shell-sand, on which the breakers, in southerly 

 winds, beat with great force. The loose sand from the beach, which 



