I'Ui, laLAM) or CUBA. 
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CHAPTER XXXI. 
Cl'J3.V AND THE SLAVE TRADE. 
OnJf enumerate among the causes of the lowering of 
the temperature at Cuba during the winter months, the great 
number of shoals with which the island is surrounded,^ and 
on which the heat is diminished several degi-ees of centesimal 
temperature. This diminished heat may be assigned to the 
molecules of water locally cooled, which go to the bottom • 
to the polar currents, which are borne toward the abvss of 
th^W • declivities of the banks. But 
temperatoe is partly compensated by 
the nnr^f, ^ Stream, which runs along 
the north-west coast, and the siviftness of which is often 
diminished by the north and northeast winds. The chain of 
encircles the island, and which appears on our 
maps like a penumbra, is fortunately broken on several 
points, and those interruptions afford free access to the shore. 
In the south-east part, the proximity of the lofty primitive 
mountains renders the coast more precipitous. In th^t direc- 
“rtimmri * Cuba, Guantantiio, 
JJaitiqutri and (in turnuig the Puiita Maysi) Baracoa The 
latter is the place most early peopled by Euroneans The 
eiiHance to the Old Channel, from Puiif.a'do Mulas. W.N.W. 
ot Baracoa, as far as the new settlement which has taken the 
name of Puerto de las Nuevitas del Principe is alike free 
tJie three 
ocks of Titnamo, Oalmmco, and Xipe ; and on the west of 
