the largest of all the abovementioned islands, and from which they take their name, is situated in N. Lat. 26° 45', and is about fifteen leagues from the peninsula of Florida. According to the best accounts, it is fifty miles in length, and in some places fifteen in breadth. The air is serene, and the island well watered and fruitful, yet is inhabited only by a few stragglers, who subsist by selling necessaries to the ships which the currents drive upon the coast. This island is said to have formerly produced guaiacum, sarsaparilla, and red wood; all of which were destroyed by the Spaniards. The inhabitants are obliged to bring all their necessaries from Carolina, excepting some white fowl, and a particular kind of rabbit which they rear. From some papers in the Philosophical Transactions it appears that sperma-ceti whales have been cast ashore upon these islands; but the writer adds, that he never heard of one of that species being killed in the sea; so fierce and active are they when alive.