THE 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



Caribby Iflands. 



THE FIRST BOOK. 



Containing the NATURAL Hi/lory of thofe 

 Islands. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of the Situation of the Caribbies in general \ the Tc 

 perature of the Air, the Nature of the Country, and its 

 inhabitants. 



Etween the Continent of that part of Ameri- 

 ca, which lies Southward, and the Eaftern 

 Quarter of the Ifland of S c John Porto-Rico, 

 there are certain Iflands making up together 

 the Figure of a Bow, and fo difpos'd that 

 they crofs the Ocean, as it were by an ob- 

 lique line. 



They are by fome called the Antilles of America, probably 

 upon this account , that they make a kind of bar before the 

 greater Iflands, which are called the Iflands ©f America : If fo 3 



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