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Title: A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ...
Year: 1767 (1760s)
Authors: Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Knox
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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JTtHus 7l7stfKmi Zon-lm A BRIE,F YlEV^r, &c. ^37 the eaft. It lies between 19° 30 and 23° of northlatitude, and from 74° to 85° 15 of longitude. Her-rera fays that it is two hundred and thirty leagues inlength, and in the broadeil part, which is toward theiiland of Hifpaniola, forty leagues, in the narroweltabout twelve. It lies within the tropic of Cancer, and is by farthe moft temperate and pleafant of all the Antilles.As to the foil, it differs pretty much in the feveralparts of the iiland. All the weftern part of the coun-try is plain, and if it were properly cultivated mightbe fruitful, though as it is it mufl be owned thatniiich cannot be faid of it on that head. The eafternpart is exceedingly mountainous; and from thencethere runs a chain of hills almoft throughout theiiland ; but the farther weft you go they are the lefsrough and barren. From thefe hills there run downto the north and fouth many rivers, and amongftthem two pretty confiderable, which befides their be-ft

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