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eftablilhment on the fouthern coalt, and built a fort, which 
he called Cumberland , but was foon after obliged to eva¬ 
cuate it, on account of the intemperance of the climate. 
In 1761, the Englitli again took the Havannah, and found 
immenfe treafures. A governor, or captain-general, com¬ 
mands in the ifland, w ho decides all affairs civil and mi¬ 
litary ; an intendant is at the head of the finances. T lie 
ifland is divided into eighteen jurifdictions, with magif- 
trates to each. A chain of mountains extends the whole 
length of the illand from eaft to weft, and divides it in 
two. The copper-mines furni(h all the Spanifh colonies 
with utenfts of that metal ; fmall pieces of gold and fil- 
ver ate collected in the fands of the river; hence it is 
probable there are veins of thefe metals in the moun¬ 
tains. Few countries have better ports ; the mod con- 
fiderable and beft known are the Havannah and St. Jago. 
The months of July and Auguft arc rainy; the reft of 
the year is fultry : the foil is equal in fertility to any in 
America, producing ginger, long-pepper, and other 
fpices; aloes, maftic, caffia fiftula, manioc, maize, co¬ 
coa, &c. Tobacco is-one of its principal productions, 
and is fuppofed to be the beft, ormoft agreeable, of any 
produced in the new world. The cultivation of lugur 
has lately been introduced, and in fome years the inha¬ 
bitants have raifed 250,000 quintals. The quantity of 
coffee is inconfiaerable. Among the trees are oaks, firs> 
palms, cotton trees, ebony, and mahogany. In 1763, 
fome emigrants from Florida introduced bees, which mul¬ 
tiplied with inch great rapidity in the hollows of old 
trees, that they had foon honey fufficient for their annual 
confumption. In 1770, they had more than enough; 
and, in the year 1777, they exported 715,000 pounds. 
The horned cattle have increafed fo much, that the io- 
refts are filled with droves of them, which run wild, and 
are hunted and killed only for their Ikins ; fwine are 
abundant, both wild and tame. The chief birds are pa¬ 
roquets, turtle doves, and partridges; water-fowl are 
numerous: on the coafts are found a great number of 
turtles. The principal fifti are mullet and chad. Fat. 
20. to 23. N. Ion. 73. 50. to 85. 30. W, Greenwich. 
CU'BA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Alen- 
tejo : three leagues north-north-eaft of Beja. 
CU'BA., in heathen mythology, the goddefs who 
was fuppofed to prelide over young children while in the 
cradle. AJh. 
CU'BA, f. A game at cards. Aft. 
CUB 7 E'A,y. in botany, a genus of the clafs decan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order lomentaceae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, 
turbinate, fpreading, permanent, five-parted; parts round- 
iHi, concave, four erect, the fifth and loweft larger, de¬ 
clined. Corolla : petals five, oblong, almoft equal, fur- 
nifiied with claws, infected into the neck of the calyx ; 
the three upper ones erect, the tw'o lower declined'. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments ten, villofe at the bafe, inferted into the 
calyx below the petals, the three upper ones fhorter, fi¬ 
liform, erect, prefled clofe to the upper petals ; the feven 
lower ones longer, capillary, incumbent on and longer 
than the lower petals ; antherae oblong. Piltillum : 
germ oblong, pedicelled ; ftyle capillary ; ftigrna acute. 
Pericarpium : legume long, coriaceous, villofe, venlri- 
cofe, obliquely acuminate, one-celled. Seeds: feveral, 
fomewhat kidney-form .—EJfential CharaPler. Calyx tur¬ 
binate, five-parted, unequal, permanent; petals five, un¬ 
equal; filaments villofe, three fhorter; germ pediceiled; 
legume villofe, fix or feven-leeded. 
Species. 1. Cubasapaniculata, or panicled cubaea. This 
is a tree of fixty feet high, extremely branchy at the 
top ; branches thick ; the fmaller ones, or ramulets, tri¬ 
gonal, growing in a feattered manner ; the leaves are 
large, alternate, pinnate ; leaflets in fix pairs, oppofite, 
fubovate, acute, quite entire, green and fmooth above, 
fomewhat downy beneath, and of an afh-coloured green. 
It grows near the- banks of rivers. Its native name is 
tachigali, 
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2. Cubasa trigona, or trigonal cubtea. This is found 
in the fame fituations, and is prob.bly rather a variety 
of the former than truly diltinct; and differs in having 
tire pinnules (ituated alternately on the triangular midrib. 
CUBAGU'A, a fmall ifland near the coalt of Curnana, 
in South America, between the ifland of Margarita and 
the continent, difeovered by Chriftopher Columbus, 
chiefly vifited by the Spaniards for the fake.of pearls 
found on its coafts ; but, in 1524, the banks of pearls dii- 
appeared, and the fishermen, who were Indians from the 
Lucayes iflands, were nearly exhaiifted. The foil is dry, 
barren, and nitrous, without frefh water, producing littie 
elfe but rufhes. Lat.ro.56. N. Ion.63 30.VV. Greenwich. 
CUBAIMAROU', a river of the ifland of St. Vincent, 
which runs into the lea, in a bay of the fame name. 
CUBAIMAROU', a bay on the fouth coaft of the 
ifland of St. Vincent. Lat. 13. 6. N. Ion. 61. n.. W» 
Greenwich. 
CU'BAN, a river of Ruffian Tartary, which rifes in 
Mount Caucasus, and empties itfelf by two mouths, one 
into the fea of Azopli, the other into the Black Sea. 
forming the fouthern boundaries of the Ruffian empire 
in that part. 
CU'BAN TART ARY, a part of Tartary, fituated to 
the north of Perfia, now united to Ruffia, which takes 
its name from the river Cuban. 
CUBA'TION.y. \_cubatio , Lat.] The a£t of lying down. 
CU'BATORY, adj. [from cubo, Lat.] Recumbent. 
CU'BATURE, or Cubation, / of a folid, is the 
meafuring the Ipace contained in it, or finding the folid 
content of it, or finding a cube equal to it. The cnba- 
ture regards the content of a body, as the quadrature 
does the fuperficies or area of a figure. 
CUB'BRIDGE-HEAD, f. [a fea term. J The bulk¬ 
head of the forecaftle, and half-deck. AJh. 
CUBCA'BIA, a confiderable town in the kingdom of 
Dar Fur in Africa; its inhabitants are various and nu¬ 
merous. It forms the key of the weftern roads, as Sweini 
of the northern ; and is the depot of all the merchandize 
that is brought from that quarter. A market is held 
there twice a-week, in which the chief medium of ex¬ 
change for articles of fmall value is fait, which the in¬ 
habitants make by collecting and boiling the earth of 
thofe places where horfes, afles, or other animals, have 
been long ftationary. T his market is celebrated for the 
quantity of tokeas, and for the manufacture, if fo it 
may be called, of leather, which they are very dextrous 
in ftripping of the hair, tanning, and then forming into 
large and durable lacks for corn, (geraubs,) water, (ray,) 
and other purpofes. The tokeas are cotton-cloths, of 
live, fix, or eight, yards long, and eighteen to twenty- 
two inches wide : they are ftrong but coarfe, and form 
the covering of all the lower clal’s of both fexes. The 
inhabitants are partly Furians, who fpeak their own lan¬ 
guage, in part Arabs, and partly from fome of the. wef- 
tern countries, as Bergoc, &c. There are alfo fome of 
the race called Fclatia, and other deferiptions. Browne's 
Tran els in Africa. 
CUBE,_/i [from koSoc^ a die.] In geometry, a regular 
or folid body, confiding of fix equal lides or faces, which 
are fquares. It is alfo called a hexahedron , becaufe of its 
fix lides, and is the fecond of the five Platonic or regu^ 
lar bodies. The cube is fuppofed to be generated by the 
motion of a fauare plane, along a line equal and perpen¬ 
dicular to one of its fides. 
CUBE-ROOT, or Cubic RooT,yi The origin of a 
cubic number; or a number, by whofe multiplication 
into itfelf, and again into the product, any given number 
is formed : thus two is the cube-root of eight.. 
CU'BEB,yi A fmalj dried fruit refemhlirg pepper, 
but fomewhat longer, of a greyiHi brown colour on the 
furface. It has an aromatic fmell, andis acrid to the 
tafte. Cubebs are brought from Java.—Aromatics, as 
cubebs, cinnamon, and nutmegs, are ufually put into crude 
poor wines, to give them more oily fpirits. Plover, 
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