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twenty five Degrees . Tumcata, fifteen Leagues in length, between twenty three and 

 twenty four Degrees j Jamanafcvcn Leagues every way . Yabague, ten Leagues like- 

 wife, and lying between twenty two and twenty three Degrees • Migaguana. twenty 

 Leagues long, and ten broad 5 Quagua, ten Leagues every Way, and lying between 

 twenty and one and twenty Degrees ■ Qaycos, five Leagues in length, and in the 

 one and twentieth Degree ; JMackre, in the twentieth Degree, encompaiVd with 

 Shelves • Abreo, environ d alfo with Shelves, and fifteen Leagues long 5 alio Guam 

 tao, Cigateo, Guanima, Jabaka, Triangulo, and feveral others. 



On thefe Iflands are no Inhabitants ; thole that did live there were a harrhlefs jJ£5J£ 

 fimple People, and therefore the eafier taken and carried away by the Spaniards tn^t %£/** 

 have made them fo defolate : Many of them feem of a good Mold, and the Lati- 

 tude promifeth much fertility. The Air is certainly good and wholfom, and not 

 fo extream hot as other Parts of that heighth. There is fcarce any Bead on them, 

 fave a Coney that hath a Tail like a Rat, but Pigeons and other Birds in great 



numbers. 



There is the Gum USenjoin, of the beft and worft fort ; Guaiacum, S of apar ilia ^nd 

 Sdffafra* ; and on fome of them Red-wood and Ambergreece. 



Our Englijh Sea-men are little acquainted with thefe Iflands, though they Sail 



round them yearly. 



In the time of the Rebellion one Captain Sail and others, obtain'd a Patent, ma- *$££** 

 king thither on the Coaft of an tfland, which was call'd lllutberia s his Ship was * tm - 

 wrackt, but the People recover'd the Shore with a few Neceflaries. 



TheCoaftsof moftof them are dangerous, and bad to make, and that Ship that 

 {hall be near or amongft them, muft keep the Lead always going; but with a wary 

 Pilot, and care in giving the Iflands a fair Birth, they are eafily recover'd. 



The Spaniards know this Place well, and have a yearly Trade thither for the 

 aforefaid Commodities,and amongft the Iflands are Wracks of divers of their Ships. 



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CHAP. XVIII. 



The Caribby Iflands, 





THe Caribbee Iflands, as they are generally call'd, are a Row or Ridge, as it $ Ituat .; onaw i 

 were, of letter Iflands, which extend themfelves almoft in fafliion of *2^mI» 

 Bowe, from the Coaft of faria as far as St. John de Torto %ico . they arc Iflandk - 

 otherwife call'd TbeCaraibes, fometimes The Camercanes, and by fome The Ijlands of 

 Cannibals, or Man-eaters, (though this Appellation cannot in reality be more appro- 

 priatcd to thefe Iflands, than to many other, either Iflands," or Parts of the Conti* 

 nent of America ; ) laftly, whereas all the Iflands between Florida and New Spain y znd 

 Southern America, are by fome comprehended all under the Name of Tl?e Antilles ; 

 yet the Caribbees and the Antilles are moft generally, and, we conceive, moft pro- 

 perly accounted the fame,, and they are fo call'd, either as lying like a Bar before 

 the greater Iflands, or Quafi Antdjles, i. e. Oppofttes Ifles ; they lie all under the torrid 

 Zone, between the eleventh and nineteenth Degrees of Northern Latitude, and are 

 twenty eight in number : but before we come to treat of each of them in particu- 

 lar, we (hall take notice of the moft obfcrvable of thofe things which aie common 



to them all in general. 



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