BRACKISH POND CHURCH- 



BOTANY. 



At a short distance from the land the Bermudas appear to 

 be clothed in some parts with verdure, and in others by a 

 thick growth of evergreen trees. On a nearer approach, 

 the former wiU be found to consist of the trailing crab 

 grass and common sage bush, and the latter of one species 

 of cedar, not indigenous to the group, as its name would 

 apply, but common also to that portion of the American 

 continent, lying in the same latitude. 



From accounts given by early navigators, these islands 

 appear to have been well wooded with this hardy and densely 

 growing tree, so useful in the present day for building pur- 

 poses, for fuel, and for the shelter it affords from the violent 



