. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. %6 *A M E %l C A. Chap. XV. Before we conclude the Dcfcription of Cuba, it will be material to add fomc Paflages of a Letter from Major Smith, Governor of the Iflc of Providence, who was taken there in the Year 1665. which will give light to the knowledge of the pre- fent State, not oncly of Cuba, butoffome other parts of America, belonging to the Spaniards j which is as followeth : Ma}, Smith con certung Cub* and other Parts. f'$ f^Uba is a very good Iftand, and in it is generally the beft Land, for fo large a * V~^ Countrey, as I have feen in America, although I have traveled the main Conti- nent in feveral places, and have crofs'd from the North Sea to the South Sea, as alfo the North fide of Hifpaniola, and moft parrs of Jamaica. This great Ifland is eafie to be conquered, and would make the bed Plantation, befides the prejudice it would be to the Spaniard, and the great advantage to our Nation ; for inftance, Had we the Port and City of Havana, which might in all probability be redue'd with two Regiments of good Soldiers from Jamaica, carry- ing with them two or three Sloops or Shallops for Landing Men, fitted with good Arms and other NeceiTaries for an Affault, prefently after their Armado hath pafs'd out of the Indies, which is once in two years, towards the latter part of the Summer. There is good Landing on the Weft fid
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