From the mouths of the Ems to those of the Scheldt Holland is an impenetrable fortress, of whose immense bastions the mills are the towers, the cataracts are the gates, the islands the advanced forts; and like a true fortress, it shows to its enemy, the sea, only the tops of its bell-towers and the roofs of its houses, as if in defiance and derision.

and Solinus in the sixty-eight chapter of the Remarkable Things of the World, say that, from the islands of the Gorgonides, which are supposed to be those of Cape Verd, it was forty days sail across the Atlantic Ocean to the Hesperides; which islands the admiral concluded were those of the West Indies.

Dio Cocceianus, however, says they are near the Iberus river and near the European Pillars of Hercules,which islands the Greeks and Romans alike call the Gymnesian, but the Spaniards Valerian or Healthful Islands.

The programme of the survey may be briefly given as follows: at the principal stationschiefly islands off the coastthe various observations for determining astronomical positions and theodolite angles, were made by Captain Stanley and Mr. W.H. Obree, and the ship remained there at anchor for several days.

They are divided in two groups, the Windward Islands forming the southern, the Leeward Islands the northern portion of the chain.

There are several islands in these lakes, particularly in Lake Superior, which islands the savages believe to be the residence of the Great Spirit.