88 BERMUDA. 



CHAPTER VII. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Paget Tribe — ^Warwick and Sandy's Tribes — Ireland Island — The 

 Royal Dockyard — Naval Establishment — Hospital — The 

 officers' residences — Anchorages — Grassy Bay — Boaz Island 

 New convict prisons — Somerset Island — Ellis Harbour — Reef 

 extending from Spanish Point — Natural breakwater to the 

 Great Sound — Romantic road from Clarence Lodge to Hamil- 

 ton— " Brackish Pond"— "The Wells"— Wreck Hill— Gibbs' 

 Hill — Description of Lighthouse on Gibbs' Hill — Telegraphic 

 post — The "Sand HiUs" — The direction of the great road — 

 Shore of white sand — Holothurise — ^Views from the hills — 

 Deep chasms — Declivities — Surfaces of sand-hiUs — Incrusta- 

 tion of the layers of sand— Transition of sand into crystal- 

 line limestone — Castle Harbour — St. George's Island — 

 Harbour of St. George — Description of scenery by Thomas 

 Moore — ^Fort Cunningham — The streets — The houses — The 

 barracks — The roadstead. 



Paget Teibe commences at the head of the port of 

 that name, and, along with that of Warwick, runs 

 to the south-west by west, the land trending with a 

 gentle curve to some distance helow Gibbs' Hill, 

 where the latter tribe is joined by that of South- 



