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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRY THE BAHAMAS. To the invalid who annually flies southward from British frosts and fogs, as to the tourist seeking rest and recreation under brighter skies, a short sketch may be interesting of a group of islands but little known, where eternal summer may be found, where frost, fog, and cold winds are unknown, where sufferers from lung affections may find health and strength, lovers of Nature explore new fields of research, and lovers of the beautiful revel in unsurpassed splendour of form and colour, of earth, and sea, and sky. The Bahamas are a group of islands running from the coast of Florida in a south-easterly direction for about four hundred miles. These islands and cays fringe the coral banks known as the Great and Little Bahama Banks, which together cover an area of about forty-three thousand square miles. They number about seven hundred, of which fifty are inhabited, varying in size from Harbour Island, with an area of one and a half square miles and a population of 1,970, to Magna, with five hundred and sixty square miles and a population of 1,083. These islands are, like the banks of which they form a portion, formed of the detritus of coral and shells, hardened into solid rock, which though almost flinty in its hardness on the surface, is at a depth of a few inches so soft that the excavations are done with hatchet and saw. Every island is clothed with tropical vegetation, and as ninety per cent. of the plants are flowering, the roadsides are bright with patches of colour. Little known as are the Bahamas to the generality of the British public, there is associated with them one fact of enduring interest. One of the islands was the first landfall of Columbus. Red Leiric may nine hundred years ago have spent twelve months with his storm-driven crew on Rho...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217082105
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 396
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217082106
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 703 gr


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