Excerpt from Winter Resorts in Southern Seas, Reached by the New York, Bermuda and West India Mail Steamship Lines of the Quebec Steamship Company: A Guide to Bermuda and the Windward West India Islands The topography of the islands now shows to advantage. Yonder upon Gibbs' Hill - is the chief lighthouse, a shapely tower of 130 feet in height, the hill itself being 245 feet above the sea. The light is visible, in good weather, thirty-three miles. The stranger floating over the white shoal of a coral reef for the first time will be wonder-struck by the marvelous clearness of the sea-water and the strange effect of deception as to the depth for objects which appear to reach nearly to the surface are found to be so deep that the vessel passes safely over them. The sunlight reaches many fathoms down upon this vast submarine plain, displaying every object clearly to the gaze as we glide swiftly along. And then the color, that beautiful bewildering green; just the shade that one catches in the gleam of an opal or the tint of malachite. Painters have sought to rival it with pigment, in vain. 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.