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vegetables in the year. It has the advantages of the tropics, plus those of more temperate 

 climes. For tomatoes, onions, beet-root, sweet potatoes, early potatoes, as well as all kinds 

 of fruits, from oranges, lemons, and bananas to small berries, it is not surpassed by any 

 place in the world; while arrowroot is one of its specialities. It is the early market-garden 

 for New York. Ship-building is carried on, as the islands abound in a stunted cedar, 



BERMUDA, FROM GIUBS HILL. 



good for the purpose, when it can be found large enough. The working population are 

 almost all negroes, and are lazy to a degree. But the whites are not much better; and 

 the climate is found to produce great lassitude. 



It is the sea round the Bermudas, more than the islands themselves, perhaps, that 

 give its beauty. Everywhere the water is wonderfully clear and transparent, while the 

 land is broken up into narrow inlets and headlands, and bays and promontories, nooks 

 and corners, running here and there in capricious and ever-varying forms. The oleander, 

 with their bright blossoms, are so abundant, almost to the water's edge, that the Bermudas 

 might be called the "Oleander Isles." 



The Bermuda convict, in Trollope's time, seemed to be rather better off than most 



