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INTRODUCTION. 
THE small, yet interesting group of Islands, known as the 
“Bermudas,” is situate in 32° 15° North Latitude, and 
64° 51° West Longitude, and distant from Cape Hatteras, 
the nearest point of the North American Coast, about six 
hundred nautical miles. 
These Islands were discovered by Juan Bermudez, in a 
Spanish vessel named “La Garza,” bound from Spain to the 
Island of Cuba, and having on board Gonzalez Oviedo, the 
celebrated historian of the Indies. Having approached 
within cannon-shot range of the southern shore, the disco- 
verers, judging from the appearance of the land, regarded the 
eroup as a single island, about twelve leagues in length and 
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