Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ese natural breakwaters whatis virtually inland navigation may be and is carried on bysmall coastwise vessels of all kinds. There are, however,many miles of open coast, and land-locked harbours, notexcelled elsewhere, are frequent. There are fifty-four har-bours in all. The best on the north coast are Bahia Honda,Cabanas, Havana, Matanzas, Sagua, Nuevitas, Gibara, Nipe,and Baracoa; and on the south, Guanta
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ese natural breakwaters whatis virtually inland navigation may be and is carried on bysmall coastwise vessels of all kinds. There are, however,many miles of open coast, and land-locked harbours, notexcelled elsewhere, are frequent. There are fifty-four har-bours in all. The best on the north coast are Bahia Honda,Cabanas, Havana, Matanzas, Sagua, Nuevitas, Gibara, Nipe,and Baracoa; and on the south, Guantanamo, Santiago deCuba, Manzanillo, Trinidad, and particularly Cienfuegos,which has one of the finest harbours in the world. Withso favourable a coast-line, added to the long and narrowshape of the Island, which brings points in the interior sonear to the coasts, transportation by water is naturally givenprecedence, and the shipping trade is one of the most flour-ishing in the Island. Twelve hundred vessels, steam andsail, clear from Havana alone every year, while the tonnageof Havana and eight other ports in 1894 was 3,538,539tons, carried in 3181 vessels. And yet with such a showing. Transportation 35 IS 388 H O 00
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