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vVas taken by Admiral Vernon, who became 
the hero of the day, and the fign of an ale- 
houfe in every village. You now come to 
the Bays of Honduras and Campeachy, where 
we claim a right to cut Logwood, which 
right the Spaniards difpute whenever they 
want a pretence for quarrelling. Faffing 
Vera Cruz, you leave the city of Mexico on 
the left, and continue coafting the Gulph, 
till you come to New Orleans near the 
mouth of the famous river Miffiffippi, the 
project of a trade to which fomewhat more 
than half a century ago, about the time of 
our South Sea bubble, ruined half the peo- 
ple in France. 
Your next objefts are the iflands of Cuba 
and St. Domingo or Hifpaniola, as it is alfo 
called, belonging to Spain. Near the weft 
extremity of the former, you find the Ha- 
vanna, which the late Lord Albemarle and 
Sir George Pocock, took in the war preced- 
ing the laft. South of Cuba, lies our Ja- 
maica, and to the northward the Bahama 
iflands. Eaft of St. Domingo you fall in 
with another firing of fmall ifles, the chief 
of which are Antigua, St. Kitts, Barbadoes 
and Nevis belonging to us; and to the 
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