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"The professor did not say this used to be called ‘The Isle of Devils," said Dr. Winstock, when he seated himself in the stern-sheets of the captain's gig, with Sheridan and Murray. "It was so called because it was such a terrible place for shipwrecks. But the science of navigation had not been carried to such perfection in those days as at present."
"This is a queer old place," said Murray, when he had obtained a view of the town.