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THE ISLAND OF 



PUERTO C A V I JN A S, 



IS a fine bay, ^nd is known at fea by a ro'Md high hi]], with a fmall 

 brealc within land, has a iittle wood at rlie top, and another high 

 hill, called Pan de Cavanas, or The Loaf of Cavanas, and near the fea- 

 coaft a double row of little hillocks, like unto ihepherds cottages, from 

 which they take their name ; thefe run to the eall of Babia Honda, w here 

 the Loaf' of Cavanas is over the middle of thefe 1 llsj there lies the Puerto 

 Cavanas, which is fit for vefTels of fmall burthen, having at the entrance, 

 and within the harbour, from four to fix fathom water. It lies fix leagues 

 from the Babia Honda, and about feventeen leagues v/eft from the Havana. 



PUERTO DE M A R I E L, 



LIES ten leagues wefl from the Havana, and" thirteen leagues eafi from 

 the Babia Honda. This place affords very good fhelter, and fufficient 

 depth for any vefiTel : to enter which they muft keep over to the lee ilior,e 

 till they are within the entrance, and then anchor on the windward fide of 

 the Puerto de Mariel, where there is fafe fiielter from the fea wind, and on 

 which fide there is fine fweet water, that runs clear from a rock. 



Wiih this we conclude the account of Cuba, from whence it plainly appears 

 of v/hat importance the conquefi: of this ifiand muft be to Great Britain: Nor 

 is this a fecret newly difcovered, but has long fince been obferved and recom- 

 mended by thofe acquainted with the PFeJl Indies, who have had the inte- 

 refi: and welfare of their nation at heart ; of which there needs no fur- 

 ther proof than the letter of major Smith, governor of the ifiands of 

 S,anta Caialina, and Old Providence^ when the Spaniard's, took them from us 

 in 1665.* 



San DOMINGO, or H I S P A N I O L A. 



THE natives called it Hayti; but the Spaniards, when Chripphcr Co- 

 hmbin firft difcovered it in 1492, named it Hifpa-niola, or Little 

 Spain. The city which he founded in 1492 being dedicated to St. Dominic, 



the 



* See Appendix. 



