miles long, and in the northern part above 800 broad : though within -the torrid, zone, it is temperate and
... the 7th, degree of southern latitude. It is now bounded on the north by the province of Costa-Rica, in Guatimala, and the Caribbean Sea, and on the east by the Atlantic and Dutch Guiana; on the south by Portuguese Guiana, the River Maranon and Peru; and ...