34 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
South-east of Long Island, beyond the Great Bank, and 
separated from it by a channel twenty-five miles wide, is Crooked 
Island ; then succeeds Acklin’s Island, with a very shallow con- 
necting channel, once reputed fordable in its narrowest part. 
To the north-east of Crooked Island is Sumona, or Atwood Key. 
Plana or French keys are east of Acklin’s Island. Then successive- 
ly follow in the same direction (south-east), the Caicos, the Maya- 
guana and the Turks Islands—the last of this inhabited chain 
of islands, six hundred miles in extent, which stretch from a point 
seventy miles from Florida to within a hundred miles of St. 
Domingo. The Caicos and the Turks Islands once were within 
the governmental jurisdiction of the Bahamas, but are now po- 
litically associated with Jamaica. 
Three smaller banks, separated by channels thirty to fifty 
miles wide, and called respectively Mouchoir, Carré, Silver and 
Navidad, extend still further to the south-east, for about one 
hundred and fifty miles. 
Nearly in the latitude of the Turks Islands, and from sixty 
to seventy miles south of Acklin’s Island and Mayaguana, are 
Great and Little Inagua or Heneagua, detached, and some sixty- 
five miles north of the north-western extremity of St. Domingo. 
Great Inagua is one of the largest and best of the Bahamas. 
Exuma, with its extensive chain of keys, lies upon the eastern 
edge of the Great Bank, and upon the western side of Exuma 
Sound. This Sound has an average width of forty miles, ex- 
tends north-westerly about one hundred miles, and breaks the 
continuity of the Great Bank between St. Salvador and Long 
Island. 
A very deep sound called The Tongue-of-the-Ocean is pro- 
jected into the Great Bank a distance of one hundred and ten 
miles. Major General Nelson, R. E., describes it as having the 
deep blue color of oceanic depths, while ‘the color of the water 
