949 
Smith, Capt. John, on ravens (turkey 
buzzard), 663, 664. 
on wood-rats, 7195. 
personal data, Expl. pl. ciii, 911. 
portrait of, pl. ciii. 
Smith, Rev. Samuel, 565. 
Smith’s Island, 447, 465. 
Smyrna figs, 632. 
Snails and Slugs, effects of, 591. 
Snails eaten by Tropic-bird, 731. 
Snappers, 438, 505, 701. 
Snapping Beetles, 794. 
Snites (snipes), 663. 
Snow, very rare, 498. 
Snow-berry, 575. 
Snowy Heron, 680. 
Snuff-bush, 433. 
Snuff Plant, 655. 
Soap-berry Tree, 577. 
Sober Island, 612. 
Soil, analyses of, 492. 
natural fertility of, 491, 494. 
origin of, 490. 
Solanum melongena=S. ovigerum, 641. 
Soldier-flies, 749. 
Solidago sempervirens, 583. 
Somers, Admiral Sir George, 435, 444, 
588, 641, 542, 544, 545, 622, 873. 
character of, 540, 699, 911.. 
death of, 444, 544, 545. 
garden made by, 1609, 548. 
letter from, 1610, 544, 596, 878. 
pinnace built by, 548. 
portrait of, 1610, pl. cii, 911. 
Saint Elmo’s fire seen by, 538. 
Tablet at St. George’s, 444. 
taking fish, 1610, 699. * 
wreck of, 1609, 558-541. 
Somerset Island, 419, 426, 427, 466. 
Sophora tomentosa, 577, 580. 
Sour Sap, 638. 
Southampton Fort, 458, 459, 460, 462. 
Gov. Butler’s description of, 459, 
460. 
Island, 454, 460, 465, 675. 
Sow-bug, 844. 
Spanish Angel-fish, 504. 
Bayonet, 433, 657. 
buccaneers, 663. 
Clam, 710. 
A. FE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 
537 
Spanish Lady-fish, 504. 
Pepper, 638. 
Point, 423, 527, 613. 
Rock, x, 615. 
ships driven from Castle Island, 
1612, 451, 615. 
treasures, 546, 610-619. 
vessel wrecked, 514, 
Sparrow, English, 429, 662, 722, 888. 
European, 722. 
Tree, 723, 888. 
Sparrow-hawk, 665. 
Spartina juncea, 586. 
Spectrum bivittatum, 823. 
Spencer, Sarah, trial of, 885. 
Spenser, Archdeacon, 659. 
Spermaceti Whale, 683, 689. 
Spermacoce tenuior, 576, 768. 
Sperm Whale, 521, 689, 690. 
Sphargis coriacea, 697. 
Sphex cementarius, 752. 
Sphinx argentata, 768. 
-atropos, in Godet, 871. 
Morning-glory, 766. 
Musk, 766, 767. 
Pepper, 767. 
Rose-banded, 766. 
Silvery, 768. 
Sweet-potato, 766, 871. 
Tobacco, 768. 
Spider-beetle, 792. 
Spider, Brown, 832, 834. 
House, 831, 835, 838. 
Jumping, 831, 832, 839, 840. 
Long-legged, 834, 835. 
Orb-web, 838. 
Red, 841, 842. 
Ring-legged, 836. 
Silk, 829, 882. 
Silvery, 837. 
Venomous, 832, 835, 836. 
Wolf, 833, 839. 
Spiders, colors of, 833. 
webs of, 850, 857. 
Spider-wasps, 752. 
Spinus tristis, 724. 
Spireea prunifolia, 654. 
salicifolia, 654. 
Spiral Snail, 591, 680, 750. 
Spiranthes tortilis, 578. 
