Excerpt from Flora of Bermuda The islands forming Bermuda, or the Bermudas, are an isolated group in the Atlantic Ocean, in north latitude 32 Degrees 14 to 32 Degrees 23 (castle Island is 32 Degrees and in west longitude 64 Degrees 38 to 64 Degrees 52 (castle Island is almost exactly 64 Degrees The nearest land is Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina, distant about 568 nautical miles; the distance to Halifax is about 736 nautical miles, to Sandy Hook 666 nautical miles, to Charleston about 700 nautical miles, and to Abaco, the nearest West Indian island of the Bahama archipelago, about 700 miles to the southwest, to St. Thomas about 800 miles to the southeast. The land area of Bermuda is a little over nineteen square land miles, or approximately one-fourth the size of Staten Island, New York, or about one-seventh the size of the Isle of Wight. There is a main island con taining perhaps three-quarters of the entire area, five islands each half a square mile in area or more, some sixty little islands or cays, and many more rocks or ledges projecting above the water. The islands are all close together. The Bermuda banks or shoals, stretching northward and west ward from the islands, -are of much greater area than the present land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.