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thofe fpecies of the Mimofa, or fenfitive plant, which gro\$ 
into the fize of trees, were moll common, and did. not 
appear to languifh. In particular fpots, the Annona, or 
fugar-apple tree, was in perfefl verdure. TheBoraffus, 
or great fan-palm, lifted, in a few places, its lofty head 
and fpreading leaves with undiminilhed beauty. In a 
bottom, about a mileand’a half behind the town of Praya, 
was Hill growing, in a healthy Hate, what may be called 
for fize a phenomenon in vegetation, a tree known to 
botanifts by the name of Adanlbnia, and in Englilh called 
monkey-bread tree. The natives of St. Jago call it kabifera ; 
others, baobab. Its trunk meafured at the bafe no lefs 
than fifty-fix feet in girth 5 but it foon divided into two 
great branches, one rifing perpendicularly, and meafuring 
forty-two feet in circumference : that of the other was 
about twenty-fix. By it flood another of the fame fpecies, 
whofe fingle trunk, of thirty-eight feet girth, attracted lit¬ 
tle notice from the vicinity of its huge companion. But 
the annual produce of agriculture was fcarcely to be 
found. The plains and fields, formerly produflive of 
corn, fugar-canes, or plantains, nourilhed by regular falls 
of rain, now bore little femblance of vegetation. Yet in 
the fmall number of plants which furvived the drought, 
were fome which, from the fpecimens fent to Europe, 
were found to have been hitherto unknown. Vegetation 
quickly, indeed, revived wherever through the foil any 
moifture could be conveyed. 
Sir George reprefents Praya, the refidence of the Por- 
tuguefe viceroy, as a hamlet rather than a town. It con- 
fills of about a hundred very fmall dwellings, one llory 
high, fcattered on each fide of the plain, which extended 
near a mile in length, and about the third of a mile in 
breadth ; and fell off all around to the neighbouring val¬ 
leys and to the fea. Not being commanded by any neigh¬ 
bouring eminence, it was a fituation capable of defence; 
the fort, however, or battery, was almoll in ruins; and 
the few guns on it were mollly honey-combed, and placed 
on carriages which fcarcely held together. 
A party belonging to the embaffy croffed the country 
to the rums of St. Jago, the former capital of the illand, 
fituated in the bottom of a vale, through which ran a 
ftream, then both fmall and lluggilh. On each fide of 
that ftream are the remains of dwellings of confiderable 
j'olidity and fize; and the fragments of glafs lultres, Hill 
hanging from the ceilings of tome of the principal apart¬ 
ments, denote the elegance or riches that were once dif- 
played in this now del'erted place. Not above half a dozen 
families remain in it at prefent; the reft abandoned it, or 
perilhed. Here was ftill, however, an attempt at a flight 
manufactory of ftriped cotton flips, the fame as are made 
in the other parts of the ifland, for the ufe of the Afri¬ 
cans on the main, w'ho pay for them in flaves, elephants’ 
teeth, and that gum which is generally called arabic. 
Amidll the ruins of St. Jago, the party found a Portuguefe, 
to whom one of them was recommended, and who re¬ 
ceived them with the moil cordial hoipitality in his houfe, 
and treated them with every fpecies of tropical fruits from 
his garden, lying on each tide the river. He had been a 
navigator; and informed them that the Ifle of Brava, one 
of the Gape de Verdes, was a fitter and fafer place for fhips 
to call at for water and provifions than the ifland of St. 
Jago: that it had three harbours; one called Puerto Furno 
on the eaft fide of the ifland, from which veffels muft 
warp, or be towed out by boats; the Puerto Fajendago to 
the weft; and the Puerto Ferreo to the fouth, which was 
the bell for large fhips, and into which runs a fmall river. 
In another of the Cape de Verde illands, called San Vi¬ 
cente, he obferved that there was alfo a-large harbour on 
the north end, but that frelh water was at fome diftance 
from it; and there was iikewile a good port at Bonavifta. 
This information of the harbours in the Hie of Brava was 
confirmed by accounts given by others to fir Erafinus 
Gower, who recommends to make a trial of them. 
JA'GO, a town of Africa, in the country of Guinea,, 
on the river FOnnofa; ieventy. miles from the fea. 
J A H 
JA'GO DE LOS CAVALLE'ROS, a town of America 
and one of the principal of the ifland of Hifpaniola It 
is feated on the river Yague, in a fertile foil, but bad air. 
Lat. 19. 4.0. N. Ion. 70. 5. W. 
. JA'GO de CU'BA, a town on the fouthern coaft of the 
ifland of Cuba, with a good harbour, feated at the bot¬ 
tom of a bay, and on the river of the fame name. It was 
formerly the capital of the ifland, and was built in 151-, 
is well fortified, and commands the windward paffagT 
This place has a declining afpecl, and prefents only the 
ruins of its former greatnefs. Yet it has a noble, fafe 
and commodious, port, inferior to the Havannah only in 
its fituation. Within three leagues of it, at Covery, is a 
rich copper-mine. In the road from St. Jago to St. Sal¬ 
vador are a great quantity of flint-ftones of various fizes 
fo round that they might ferve for cannon-bullets. St. Jago 
has a cathedral with canons refidentiary, and had once a 
good trade, but it is removed to the Havannah, where its 
bifliop alfo refides. Sir Francis Drake took and burnt 
this city in 1585. Lat. 20.15. N. Ion. 76.4.0. W. 
JA'GO del ES'TERO, a town of South America, one- 
of the molt confiderable of Tucuman, and the refidence 
of the inquifitor of the province, and is a bifhop’s fee.. 
It is fituated on the banks of the Dolee, which is here 
pretty-large, and navigable for veffels of burden. It is 
160 leagues eaft of Potoli. Lat. 24.. 40. S. Ion. 64. cc W 
JA'GO de GUATIMA'LA. See Guatemala, vol ix‘ 
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JA'GO de LE'ON, a town of Venezuela, a province of 
Terra Firma, in South America, eighteen miles from the 
fea-coaft, and fituated on a plain, amorsgft high mountains 
extremely difficult of accels It was taken by the Eng¬ 
lish in 1599 ; but afterwards reflored to Spain. 
JA'GO de NEXA'PHA, a town of Guaxaca, in the 
audience of Mexico, fituated in the valley of Nexapha, on 
a river which falls into the river Alvarado. It has a rich 
convent of Dominicans. 
JA'GO de las VAL'LES, a town of North America, 
in the audience of Nlexico, feated on a plain on the river 
Panuco. Lat. 23. N. Ion. 71. 10. W. 
JAGO de la VE'GA, 01* Spanifh Town , is the capital 
of the ifland of Jamaica; fituated in Middlefex county, on 
the banks of the river Cobre, about fix miles from the 
fea, and contains hetween five and fix hundred houfes-, 
and about five thoufaud inhabitants, including people of 
colour. It is the refidence of the governor or comman¬ 
der-in-chief, who is accommodated with a fuperb pa¬ 
lace. Here the iegiflature is convened, and the court of 
chancery, and the fupreme court of judicature, are lieldv 
It was greatly damaged by a ftorm in 1772. It lies in the 
fouth-eaft part of the ifland, about feven miles north- 
well of Port-Paffage, on the bay of Port-Royal. Lat. 
18. 6. N. Ion. 76.49. W. 
JAGODI'NA, a town of European Turkey, in the 
province of Servia, on a fmall river which runs into the 
Morava : fifty miles north-north-wcft of Nina, and fixty 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Belgrade. Lat. 44.15. N. Ion. 38. 40-. 
E. Ferro. 
JA'GRA,or Giar'ra, a country of Africa, rich in rice, 
cotton, and corn ; a little to the fouth of the river Gam¬ 
bia : about fifty miles from the fea.. 
JAG'UA, a town of the ifland of Cuba : eighty-five 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Havannah. 
JA'GUR, [Hebrew.} The name of a city. 
JAH, [Heb. everlalting.J One of the names of the true 
God. 
JAHAL'ALEEL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'HATH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'HAZ, or Jaha'rah, [Heb. a dilpute.] The name 
of a place in the land of Canaan. 
JAHAZI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAHAZI'EL, [Hebrew.] A man's name. 
JAHDA'I, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'DIEL,. [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'DO, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'HJ, 
