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eight miles north from the islands. They stand on an extensive 
pateh of flat reef, part of which is laid bare by low tides. The 
larger one is about 14 to 15 feet high, the second in size is about 10 
feet. They are evidently the remains of an island of considerable 
height and extent that has been nearly worn away to the sea-level 
by erosion. But the ancient engravings indicate that the erosion, 
even in this exposed situation, has not been rapid. 
Figure 32.—Reduced facsimile of the reverse of the ancient seal of the Bermuda 
Company, engraved on Norwood’s map of Bermuda, published in 1626. It 
shows the wreck of May’s vessel in 1595, alongside of North Rocks, which 
then appeared much as at present, but apparently higher and the two parts 
more nearly equal. 
On Norwood’s map of 1626,* in the two lower corners, are engrav- 
ings of the seal of the original Bermuda Company. On the reverse 
side of the seal (fig. 32) there is a view of a wrecked vessel alongside 
of two high rocks, which are easily recognized as the two peaks or 
lobes of the main North Rock. The vessel, with broken masts, 
stands upright between the large rock and a small one that exists to 
* The map particularly referred to was made by Richard Norwood, before 
1622. ‘‘A mapp of the Sommer Islands, once called the Bermudas.” London, 
1626. Reprinted from an original engraving in the British Museum, by Gover- 
nor Lefroy in ‘‘ Memorials of the Discovery and early Settlement of the Bermudas 
or Somer’s Islands,” London, 1877 (end of vol. I). A much less complete edition 
of this or an earlier map was published in 1624, in Capt. John Smith’s ‘‘ General 
History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Ils.” 
A later survey and map by Norwood, completed in 1633, has also been 
reprinted by Goy. Lefroy, in the work cited, p. 644, but the shore lines are 
much coarser and less accurate in the latter, which was made mainly with refer- 
ence to the transfers of land and the boundaries of estates, 
