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trade j and all their ports on the eaft fide of the continent would eafily fall 

 into the hands of the conquerors, if they purfued the blow, with refolution 

 and intrepidity. 



B A H I A DE M A T A N Z A S, 



IS a fine deep bay, and one of the largeft in Cui>a, oppofite Bahama channel, 

 about twenty-four leagues eaft from the Havana, hardly fit for large 

 fliips, but very convenient for fmall veflels to anchor and take in frefh water: 

 at the bottom of the bay is the fmall town of San Carlos, and a fort to guard 

 the road. There is here a very great fnuff manufadlory. 



PUERTO DEL PRINCIPE, 



IS three hundred miles S. E. of the Uavana, and one hundred eighty fix 

 N. W. of Baracoa. It was formerly a large and rich town j but being 

 taken by Capt. Morgan with his buccaneers, after a flout refinance, it never 

 recovered itfelf. Near it are feveral fountains of bitumen. 



B A H I A DE N I P E, 



IS an extenfive bay , with very deep water on the north fide of Ctiia, 

 thirty leagues weft of Punta de Mayji, and 140 leagues S. E. of the 

 Havana. There is a road from hence over the mountains to Sa/it Jago 

 de Cubaj diftant about eighty miles from this place. 



PUERTO DE BARRACOA, 



1 S about feVen leagues north weft of Fimta de MayJi on the north fide' 

 ^ of C/^/l7, being a good port with regular foundings ; the courfe into 

 it Is S. W. tho' many avoid entering it, becaufe it is troublefome to come cut 

 again, for the wind blows right a-headj tho' fome have thought it would make 



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