| Description | "The Buccaneers first settled them on account of their vicinity to the Spanish settlements, who were at that time the only power, which had an American trade worth attending to", points out the importance of salt-making on Turks Island "all the vessels from North America bound to Jamaica pass through Turks Channell, and the Caiques, which is exceeding safe", sets forth the large trade that could be carried on with these islands |