... Cape Samana. It is one of the healthiest of the West India Islands, with fewer earthquakes and hurricanes than any in the Caribbean group. A frightful earthquake, Inwever, occurred in 1751, which levelled Port-au-Prince and many other towns, submerging ...

... North Atlantic Squadron under Admiral Bunee's command sailed on its winter cruise from Hanarton Road for the West Indies and Caribbean Bea December 30. The United States cruiser Minneepolis arrived at Alexandretta on December 26. Admirals Brain and Roe, on ...

... of Michiunn, one in relation to the transportation of goods in bond through any foreign country bordering on the Gulf or Caribbean Sea They were referred. A bill for the completion of the Washington Monument was reported and referred to the Committee of ...

... had not taken sufficient account of the extraordinary annual rain-fall, averaging more than 22 feet or 267 inches, on the Caribbean coast, and about si feet on the Pacific side; or of frequent and severe rain storms—in which the precipitation has equalled ...

... remarked, to hold possession of Lake Nicaragua with a fleet. Manz Americans believe that Lake Nicaragua, with a canal to the Caribbean Sea on the one side, and to the Pacific Ocean on the other side, would form the most commanding naval station in the world ...

... Since the commencement of the last month, however, the distressing occurrences which have taken place in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, almost on our very seaboard. while they illustrate most forcibly the necessity always that a nation situated like ours ...