... 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 ...

... parallel may, with most propriety, be instituted. Cuba commands the northern and Trinidad the southern extremity of the great Caribbean Gulf. Cuba is within an easy distance of the Floridas, Haiti, Jamaica, and Yucatan; Trinidad is favourably situated for intimate ...

... early years of ,the present kept appropriating to itself the colonies ' of UEland, France, atnd Spain-Guiana, many of the Caribbean islands, Trinidad and Mauritius-had the I same effect at the time upon the planters of the I old colonies, as the investment ...

... has ended by acquiring all the lands, and driving the save out, This is as, true of Penusyl- . vania as of any ?? in the Caribbean sea, where the aboriginal race has disappeared. 'The savages fancy- a ing that the o p sfwl only reclaim patches of ground ...

... ruin of so flourishing a possession, and which contrasts in so admirable a manner with the ruined foreign colonies of the Caribbean Sea. The idea of the foreign influence, which so haunts the imagination of certain parties here, being employed in pro- ...

... the Assembly should be requested to move in the matter. It is to be hoped that the appearance of American steamers in the Caribbean waters will give a fillip to English emulation. The monopoly hitherto enjoyed understhe protection of incorporated privileges ...

... be able, in the coarse of a few years, to supply moate. rials for a complete and correct chart of the ear- rents in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and of theimmcdiately adjoining pant of the Atlantic, from Demaerara to Florida. This addition ...

... gigantic scale on the high seas, and was intended to give the inhabitants of the islands and seaports that stud and bound the Caribbean Sea a frequent and rapid interchange of communication one with another and with Great Britain, on the plan adopted with the ...

... 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 ...

... they were attempts to extend the o. tboundary of the Spanish settlements on the Pacific, o. eastward to the shores of the Caribbean Sea. All of ti a them were defeated and driven back by the Indians b e to the Spanish settlements. About 1679 the Fran- p ...

... into Sierra Lcone, or that the seven -whites and four| haundred negrocs whllo vegetate inl the islet of Ca iacou, in the Caribbean Sea, should be iidnlged i with self-governmnent. Hl wvill apply the pioposed schmc o ibrltl, udprove i t ?? c and lhe will ...

... continua- tion of the antagonism between them, arising out of the disputes about the construction of a ship canal from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific by the lake of Nicaragua. English and American adventurers have been contending for the privilege of making ...