232 HUMBOLDT'8 MAP OF CUBA. 



intendancia, or Provincia de la Havannafi, occupies all that 

 part situated west of the Quatro Villas, of which the inten- 

 daut of the capital has lost the financial administration. 

 When the cultivation of the land shall be more uniformly 

 advanced, the division of the island into five departments, 

 viz.: the vuelta de dbaxo (from Cape San Antonio to the fine 

 village of Gruanajay and Mariel), the Havannah (from Maricl 

 to Alvarez), the Quintets Villas (from Alvarez to Moron), 

 Puerto Principe (from Moron to Bio Cauto), and Cuba 

 (from Bio Cauto to Punta Maysi), will perhaps appear the 

 most fit. and most consistent with the historical remem- 

 brances of the early times of the Conquest. 



My map of the island of Cuba, however imperfect it may 

 be for the interior, is yet the only one on which are marked 

 the thirteen ciudades ; and also seven villas, which are 

 included in the divisions I have just enumerated. The 

 boundary between the two bishoprics (linea divisoria de los 

 dos obispados de la Havana y de Santiago de Cuba) extends 

 from the mouth of the small river of Santa Maria (long. 

 80 49'), on the southern coast, by the parish of San Eu^ 

 genio de la Palma, and by the haciendas of Santa Anna, Dos 

 Hermanos, Copey, and Cienega, to La Punta de Judas 

 (long. 80 46'), on the northern coast, opposite Cayo Bo- 

 mano. During the regime of the Spanish Cortes, it was 

 agreed that this ecclesiastical limit should be also that 

 of the two Deputaciones provinciales of the Havannah and 

 of Santiago. ( Guia Constitucional de la isla de Cuba, 1822, 

 p. 79). The diocese of the Havannah comprehends forty, 

 and that of Cuba twenty-two, parishes. Having been estab- 

 lished at a time when the greater part of the island was 

 occupied by farms of cattle (luiciendas de ganado), these 

 parishes are of too great extent, and little adapted to 

 the requirements of present civilization. The bishopric of 

 Santiago de Cuba contains the five cities of Baracoa, Cuba, 

 Holguin, G-uiza, Puerto Principe, and the Villa of Bayamo. 

 In the bishopric of San Cristoval de la Havannah are 

 included the eight cities of the Havannah, viz.: Santa Maria 

 del Bosario, San Antonio Abad or de los Banos, San Felipe y 

 Santiago del Bejucal, Matanzas, Jaruco, La Paz. and Tri- 

 nidad, and the six villas of Guanabacoa, viz.: Santiago de laa 

 Yegaa or Compostela, Santa Clara, San Juan de los Berne- 



