... —Seenery and Climate. The sea appears all golden Beneath the sunlit sky. Heine. The beauty of the various islands of the Caribbean Sea has often been described by those who have travelled in that region of the globe, and the Bahamas are not without many ...

... group owes its equable climate to its er- peculiar geographical position. To the South uc. there are the warm waters of the Caribbean ing Sea, whilst to the West and North of the Col the ony there flows the warm water of the Gulf it Stream, which modifies ...

... more in common with the Southern State* of America, and especially with Florida. than they have with the islands of the Caribbean Sea. The Bahamas are sometimes confounded with the Bermudas, which lie some hundreds of mile* further north, and with liarbatbes ...