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BOTANY. 
AT a short distance from the land the Bermudas appear to 
be clothed in some parts with verdure, and in others by a 
thick growth of evergreen trees. On a nearer approach, 
the former will be found to consist of the trailing crab 
erass and common sage bush, and the latter of one species 
of cedar, not indigenous to the group, as its name would 
apply, but common also to that portion of the American 
continent, lying in the same latitude. 
From accounts given by early navigators, these islands 
appear to have been well wooded with this hardy and densely 
growing tree, so useful in the present day for building pur- 
poses, for fuel, and for the shelter it affords from the violent 
