Berkeley Sound
next to Stanley Sound the most frequented inlet of the East Falkland Island , near its N. E. extremity. Though it is difficult to enter, it contains several excellent harbors.
BERKELEY, GEORGE, Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, born in Ireland in 1685; became fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1707; went to England in 1713; traveled on the Continent in 1714, and again in 1716-1720. In 1721 he was appointed Chaplain to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Grafton. In 1724 he became Dean of Derry. He now published his "Proposals for the Conversion of the American Savages to Christianity by the Establishment of a College in the Bermuda Islands"; and subscriptions having been raised he set sail for Rhode Island in 1728. The scheme never got a start, however, and he returned, receiving the bishopric of Cloyne. He died suddenly at Oxford in 1753. Berkeley holds an important place in the history of philosophy. His most celebrated philosophical works are "Essay Toward a New Theory of Vision" (1709); "A Treatise on the the Principles of Human Knowledge" (1710), in which his philosophical theory is fully set forth; "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" (1713); "Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher" (1732); and "Siris, Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water" (1744).