. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ... . firftinhabitants ^ though this is a term that moil geogra-phers confine to the leeward iflands. Sailors diftin-guifh them into Windward iflands and Leew^-d iflands,with regard to the ufual courfe of ffcips from Oldi^pain or the Canaries, to Carthagena or New Spainand Porto Bello. The geographical tables and mapsdiftinguilh them into the Great and
. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ... . firftinhabitants ^ though this is a term that moil geogra-phers confine to the leeward iflands. Sailors diftin-guifh them into Windward iflands and Leew^-d iflands,with regard to the ufual courfe of ffcips from Oldi^pain or the Canaries, to Carthagena or New Spainand Porto Bello. The geographical tables and mapsdiftinguilh them into the Great and Little the original natives, they are inhabited byEngliOi, Spaniards, French or Dutch: yet all that^re inhabited are not cultivated j and fonie are quitedefolate. The firft that we come to from the Bahamas, areCuba, Hifpaniola, Jamaica, and Porto Rico -, which,with fome fmall ones, go by the name of the GreatAntilles. The ifland of CUBA is the moft confiderable infize, and, to fay the truth, is one of the fineft iflandsin the univerfe. It lies ilretched out from wefl: toeaft, having Florida and the Lvicayos on the north,Hifpaniola on the wefl:, Jamaica and the on the fouth, and the gulph of Mexico on t|l€. JTtHus 7l7stfKmi Zon-lm A BRIE,F YlEV^r, &c. ^37 the eaft. It lies between 19° 30 and 23° of northlatitude, and from 74° to 85° 15 of longitude. Her-rera fays that it is two hundred and thirty leagues inlength, and in the broadeil part, which is toward theiiland of Hifpaniola, forty leagues, in the narroweltabout twelve. It lies within the tropic of Cancer, and is by farthe moft temperate and pleafant of all the to the foil, it differs pretty much in the feveralparts of the iiland. All the weftern part of the coun-try is plain, and if it were properly cultivated mightbe fruitful, though as it is it mufl be owned thatniiich cannot be faid of it on that head. The eafternpart is exceedingly mountainous; and from thencethere
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