A British colony in the western North Atlantic Ocean about 640 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It comprises a group of about 300 islands of which only about 20 are inhabited. It is called also the Bermuda Islands or the Bermudas. It was named for the Spanish explorer Juan Bermudez who visited the islands in 1515. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p140 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p61)
    

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Tobacco Bay, Bermuda: ships in the bay, and a source of fresh water for them on land. Aquatint by J. Wells after Porgay, 1803.

World War One: soldiers from Bermuda in a casualty clearing station. Photograph, 1916.

Copy of a despatch from the officer administering the Government to the Duke of Newcastle / [S. Oakeley, John Harvey Darrell, D. Stewart].

Rough notes and memoranda relating to the natural history of the Bermudas / by John L. Hurdis ; edited by H.J. Hurdis.

Yellow fever, Bermuda : historical sketch, abstracted from returns to Parliament, 20th December 1854, 17th February 1858, and 4th August 1866.

The naturalist in Bermuda : a sketch of the geology, zoology, and botany of that remarkable group of islands together with meteorological observations / by John Matthew Jones ; assisted by J.W. Wedderburn and J.L. Hurdis.

Challenging "nature's great sanitarium" : Bermuda 1609-1925 / Christine Johnston.

Bermuda. An Act for fixing and ascertaining the rates of ferryage between the westernmost part of the island of St. George and the island commonly called Coney Island, ..

Bermuda. An Act for the better recovery of debts due on promissory notes, and the assignment of bonds, obligations, and notes

Bermuda. An Act further to provide means for supplying the deficiency of the fund established by an Act, intitled "an Act for raising a public revenue for the Support of "the Government of these His Majesty's "islands, " and for certain other purposes the

Bermuda. An Act for the further providing means to supply the deficiency of the fund established by an Act, entitled "an Act for passing a public revenue for the Support of the "government of these His Majesty's "islands, " and for other purposes therein 

Bermuda. An Act for the establishment and regulation of the militia of Bermuda

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Bermuda. An Act for fixing and ascertaining the rates of ferryage between the westernmost part of the island of St. George and the island commonly called Coney Island, ..

Bermuda. An Act for the better recovery of debts due on promissory notes, and the assignment of bonds, obligations, and notes

Bermuda. An Act further to provide means for supplying the deficiency of the fund established by an Act, intitled "an Act for raising a public revenue for the Support of "the Government of these His Majesty's "islands, " and for certain other purposes the

Bermuda. An Act for the further providing means to supply the deficiency of the fund established by an Act, entitled "an Act for passing a public revenue for the Support of the "government of these His Majesty's "islands, " and for other purposes therein

Bermuda. An Act for the establishment and regulation of the militia of Bermuda