... vessels, and a ship canal carried from the lake to the Pacific Ocean (acdietanco of bi leagues,) so as to connect it with the Caribbean Sea. The canal, for a corr tati distance, should be counducted by a tunnel, through a hill elevated 487 English feet above ...

... than those in the Pacific, as soon as the channel is opened there will probably be a great revolution in the streams of the Caribbean seat. Perhaps even the Eurolpean currents will be affiectcd ; and the sentinel on Europa point, in Gibral- tar, some morning ...

... geographical position of thle countries entitled to claim thle benefit of theem, we wvill compare the Gulf of Mexico aid the Caribbean Sea to an irregular semicircle. Near the centre of ?? line joining its extremities is the islaiid of' Jamaica, distant about ...

... point of inportance to na. vigation in gencral, I compared his chart, which is one published by Blachford, ill 1825, of the Caribbean Sea and Islands, coast of Colombia, &c., with Hlidalgo's Spanish Chart * but they differ so materially that no just ?? can ...

... Cuba commands the luasigrotion of the Gulf of Mexico, of the Pay of hoe 1-ondusrat, tettd of a coosiderable part of tle Caribbean 'rat Seal. No vessel can nail from the coasts bordering on L on. thesea waters into the Atlantic withiout passing ril on ...

... Coleridge's six month's in tho West Indies, is an amusing story connected with the first appearance of a steam-boat il the Caribbean waters. Mr. 11. Woodward was taking a cruise round Trinidad, of which he was governor, when a little schooner privateer belonging ...

... system'for a few generations, andeI have not the least hesitation in asying, that the native Ameticans, ay, or even the Caribbeans, would be disgraced by a comparison with the worlkingelasses in cotton mills in this cofintry. For the degeneration produced ...