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that lie to the weft of the entrance, as marked in the plan. For this very 

 reafon, while the Spaniard- are in poffeffion of the fart, it would be almoft 

 inipoffible to enter this harbour. 



La T*rinidad, fituated on the fouth fide of Cuba, about iQomiles diftant 

 fiom the Havana^ and under the jurifdidionof that city: there is a fmall trade 

 carried on in barks, from this town to Cartagena, andfeveral other places on 

 the coafl of Tierra Firma. The river is only fit for veffels that draw about 

 10 feet water. 



BAHIA DE XAGUA, 



SITUATED on the foiith fide of Cuba, and about 80 miles to the S.E.. 

 of tlie Hava?ia, and about 90 miles N. W. and by N. from port Ncgril 

 in Jamaica. This is a very fine harbour, with deep water, the entrance 

 of which is guarded by a fmall fort upon a rock, called Cayo de Cabron, 

 There are feveral fine frefh-water rivers, that difcharge themfelves into 

 this bay ; the country round produces the finefi: timber for fhip-build- 

 ing ; moft of them that are lit for ufe are flamped with the king of Spain s 

 arms, and wlien cut down, are tranfported by fea to the Havana, for 

 the ufe of the docks there. 



The COLORADO S, 



APv^E a very dangerous clufter of rocks, that lie at the moft wellern 

 part of the bank Santa Ifabella, on which many rich fhips have been 

 lofi: in their palTage from Jamaica to Europe. As this coaft has never been 

 accurately laid down, but in Spajiifh draughts, we have thought proper to 

 infert a copy of one, with the defcription of the coaft, written originally in 

 Spanijh, by Domingo Gonzales Carranza, his Catholic majefty's principal 

 pilot of the flota in New Spain. 



** In failing from Jamaica for the gulph of Florida, and having paft the 

 large Caiman, direct your courfe to the N. W. and you will come in fight 



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