BOOK X, 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Passage from the Coast of Venezuela to the 

 Havannah. — General View of the Population 

 of the West Indies, compared with the Popu- 

 lation of the New Continent, with respect to 

 the Diversity of Races, Personal Liberty, 

 Language, and Worship. 



Since the improvement of the art of naviga- 

 tion, and the increasing activity of commercial 

 nations, have drawn the coast of the two conti- 

 nents nearer to each other ; since the Havan- 

 nah, Rio Janeiro, and Senegal scarcely appear 

 to us more distant than Cadiz, Smyrna, and 

 the ports of the Baltic, we hesitate in calling 

 the attention of the reader to a passage from 

 the coast of Caraccas to the island of Cuba. 

 The Caribbean Sea is like the basin of the Me- 



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