The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first p...lanting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, "built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts." To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship's company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night,... And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormus shows; He makes the figs our mouths to meet, And throws the melons at our feet; But apples plants of such a price No tree could ever bear them twice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! let our voice His praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's vault,... Which, thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Echo beyond the Mexique bay."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »