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mtendancia or Provinda de la IlavannaT,, occupies all that 
part sxtua ed west of the Quatro Tillas, of whic/x tL inte;;. 
\VI,L capital has lost the financial administration, 
the cultivation of the Land shall be more miiforinlv 
TiV thf; ;/ department; 
z.. the de abaxo (from Cape San Antonio to the fine 
iillage of Guanajay andMariel),tt.ellavannali (from Mariel 
to Aharw), the Qmntas Villas (from Alvarez to iloron), 
Paerfo Principe (trmii Moron to Eio Canto), and S 
(from Em Canto to Pnnta Maysi), will perhaps appear the 
most fit and most consistent with the liistoricaPreme.n! 
branees of the early times of the Conquest. 
he f!iv '’°" C''er imperfect it may 
inclnded^^n seven villas, which are 
nduded in the divisions I have just enumerated Tlie 
boundary between the two bishoprics {linea dimsoria dPlos 
dos ohspados de la Havana y de Santiago de Cuhd) extends 
So‘49^ on°? ' fi'® Santa hlaria (long. 
, 1 - ’ 10° hfii coast, by the parish of San 
genio de la I alma, and by the haciendas of Santa Anna Bos 
(loiij,. so 4 (})j oil the northern coast, opposite Cavo Eo- 
mano During the regime of the Spanish CortL ^^t was 
oFthe be also that 
of Snnill. the Havannah and 
? 7 m ^ r^i i®"'" Oons itucional de la isla de Cuba, 1822, 
and diat ^ 1'® irav.aimah comprehends fortv, 
fished at .a time when the greater part of the island was 
tupicd by farms of cattle (haciendas de qanadd) these 
parishes are of too great extent, and little adapted to 
the requirements of present civilization. The bishonric of 
Santiago de Cuba contains the five cities 0/ RaiitTub^ 
l olgiun Guiza^ ruorto Principe, and the Villa of Eavamo: 
III the bishopric of _ San Cnstoval de la Travannah are 
included the eight cities of the Havannah, viz.: Santa jMaria 
del Eosario. San Antonio Abad or de los Eafios, Sau Eolipe v 
Santiago del Bejucal, Matanzas, Jarueo, I.a Paz and Tri- 
nidad, and the six vilLas of Guanabaeoa, viz.: Saiiti’a"0 de las 
\oga. or Compostela, Santa Clara, San Juan de Eeme! 
