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to tlie names of places, iuch as rivers, mountains, head-lands, C?i-, 

 which in hct are of Indian derivation. Thus the article gu:t, lb 

 commonly met with both in thefe iflands and on the Soutliern con- 

 tinent, was often prefixed or appended to the Indian names of places 

 and things, and even of their provincial caciques. Of the latter 

 were Gua-rionexius, Gua-canarillus, Gua~nabo, and others. Of the 

 former a vail multitude occurs, as Gua-nama, Xa-gua, Gua-ha-giia, 

 Camaya-gua, Aicay-aza-gua, Ma-gua, Nicara-gua, Vera-gua, Xara- 

 gua, Gua-rico, Ni-gua (Ciiigger), ^c; which may feem to con- 

 found them with derivatives from the SpaniQi or Moorifli word 

 ^gua (water). So the terminations, ao, ana, coa, and boa, or voa, as 

 Manabax-ao, Cib-ao, Gu-ana, Magu-ana, Yagu-ana, Ligu-ana, Zav- 

 ana, (Savannah), Furac-ana, (Hurricane), Caym-ana, Guaiac-ana, 

 (Guiacum), Haba-coa, Cauna-boa, and fo iorth. The names there- 

 fore occurring in our ifland of Liguanea, Cagua, Tilboa, Guanaboa, 

 Guadibocoa, and others of limilar finals, are with more propriety to 

 be traced from the Indian than the Spanilh dialeft. There feems 

 to be no queftio:;, but that thefe iflands were peopled by emigra- 

 tions from the continent fo near to them ; but it is no abfurd con- 

 jedure, to fuppofe that they did not all proceed from one part or 

 diltrift of it. Cuba lays convenient to receive fupplies from Eafl 

 Florida, and the gulph of Mexico j from Cuba to Hifpaniola and 

 Jamaica, the progrefs was equally eafy ; but as the Indians of this 

 latter ifland were fo flrongly difcriminated from the others in 

 feveral qualities, fuch as their fuperior ingenuity, fpirit for traffic, 

 induflry, and bold temper, it is probable that they drew fome 

 accefilons from thofe provinc^-S which border upon the gulph of 

 Honduras, and more particularly that of Yucatan, lying in the fame 

 parallel of latitude. It is not unlikely, that traders from that great 

 commercial province might refort hither at certain feafons of the 

 year, to take off their fuperfluous cotton, an article in vaft demand 

 on the continent, and particularly in Mexico. Such voyages could, 

 even in thofe days, with the greatefi: facility, be made to Jamaica, 

 which lies fo near to Honduras and Campeche, from whence the 

 paffage is marked out by nature, by a line of little ifles and cayes, 

 as the Santanillas, Serranas, Serranillas, and others, continuing the 

 track almofl: the whole way. Their larger veil'els were capable of 

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