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Of the Forflief State of J a m a i c a* 



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HE Ifland of Jamaica (one of thofe fituated neat the main continent 



of America) is of an irregular oblong form, and adorned with a ridge or chain 

 of lofty mountains, which in its irregular difpofition, from the moil eaftern 



, occupies the middle part of the country ; and by its various appen 



and decliv 



forms thofe fruitful 



between the mountains and the fea, which we find 



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ring ground 



fprings, rivulets, and larg 



y where fuppJied 



and continue their winding fteepy courfes to the fea 



flow from different parts of the main ridg 



It lies between ij deg 

 minutes and a quarter north 



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minutes and a half, and 18 degrees 

 de 5 and extends from 75 degrees 40 minutes and 



three quarters* to 78 degrees 20 minutes and three quarters wed longitude (a) j being 

 about a hundred and feventy tWo miles in length, and fifty eight over where broad- 



eft. It is fituated a little to the eaft of the entrance into the guiph of Me 



having 



the ifland of Cuba to the north 5 Jucatan and the guiph of Honduras to the weft 

 Hifpaniola and the Caribbee IJlands to the eaft; and that part of the main land called 

 Granada, now a province of the kingdom of Santa Fee, to the fouth, at the dis- 

 tance of about a hundred and fifty leagues. 



This Ifland was firft difcovered by the famous Cbrijlophef Colon (b) or Columbus, 



Tranfa&ions. 



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 iji other Colon (ft 



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time or upon what occafioft he had conceived a notion of thofe remote lands* is uncertain: It is, how- 

 ever, well known, that, on this occafion, he had made frequent unfuccefsful applications to the feveral 



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Juaded to favour bis project, and fupplied him with three fhipsand about 220 men 



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But the King of Spain was at length per- 





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