ABSTRACT
The greater Antilles are, Cuba, Hispaniola, Portorico., and Jamaica; the three former, Spanish. They make the best Sugars in the West-Indies. Cuba is principal; a very pleasant and flourishing Island, the Spaniard building and improving for Posterity, without dreaming, as the English Planters do, of any other Home. The Pyrates often take their rise here, or if not, seldom fail in the Course of their Adventures to visit these Seas. Their Logwood-Cutters from Campechy and Honduras, who have been unfortunate by the frequent Visits of the Spaniards to destroy that Trade, remove hither, or those to them, to consult of Reparations to their broken Fortunes. The Gulph of Mexico receives many and large Rivers, whose Mouths together carry some proportion with the Chanel of Florida; and consider'd as a little Mediterranean Sea, the Flood in it must have a more remarkable and strong Ebb.
