... Jersey. One has been found after sixteen years, another after fourteen, and a third after ten years. One was thrown into the Caribbean Sea, and after five days was picked up 210 miles distant. A bottle was thrown in at Behring’s Straits, and 200 days afterwards ...

... centuries. Geologists say that the West India Islands are but the remains of land which formerly occupied the site of the Caribbean Sea ; and the submergence of Tortola may be but exertion ot the vast forces of nature, which, though dormant for ages, have ...