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Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eadquarters of the West AtlanticSquadron. Until 1904 there were about ten cruisers andother vessels on the North American station, the flagofficer of which had the status of a Commander-in-Chief.In the redistribution of that year, most of these ships werewithdrawn and their places taken by training ships of theParticular Service Squadron, of which the Commander-in-Chief took charge. In 1907, on a change of flag officers,the new admiral ceased to be a Commander-in-Chief, andthe squadron was no longer designated for ParticularService, while in 1909, it ceased to be associated with theNorth American station in name, and became simply theFourth Cruiser Squadron. This was replaced in 1913 bythe West Atlantic Squadron. INDUSTRIES. The early settlers in the Bermudas wereplanters, and the inhabitants followed agricultural pursuitsuntil the abrogation of the charter of the Somer IslandsCompany in 1684 (see page 59), when they took to tradingand piracy. In vessels made of the native cedar, they
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