BERMUDA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 HISTORY. 



Modern Cathay — New highway of nations — Coast scenery — 

 Discovery — Shipwreck of Barbotiere and Henry May — Of 

 Sir GeclTge Somers — Extension of charter by King James I. 

 to the Virginia Company— Formation of the Bermuda Com- 

 pany — Colony under Governor Moor — Governor Tucker — 

 Governor Butler — First cultivators of the goil — The black 

 African — The kidnappers — Composition of the first General 

 Assembly — Distinguished emigrants — Edmund Waller — His 

 Battel of the Summer Islands — Is a member of the Long Par- 

 liament — Conspiracy, escape, and residence in the Bermudas, 



In searching into the scanty records of the voyages 

 of Columbus, we find no evidence of his having 

 visited Bermuda in his extraordinary mission to the 

 New World, and in liis eager and absorbing anxiety 

 for the final discovery of Cathay — that region of 

 gold, pearls, and diamonds, which was to enrich 

 every hardy adventurer. 



But I think the reader will perceive, after 

 perusing this work, that although we find neither 



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