... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... no merchatatman of whatever nation within such a distance of the approaches to that canal, either in the Pacific or the Caribbean sea; and that in case of doubt as to the distance the peaceful merchantman shall of have the benefit of that doubt and be ...

... American steamers from :he New York to Chagres, Jamaica must inevitably be- he come the most active centre of trade in the Caribbean to Seas, and the natural advantages possessed by Trini- to dad for becoming a great central emporium of com. ng !nerce are ...

... produce all the 3sgar that is at present the object of traffic on earth. With these figures before you, cast an eve or the Caribbean Sea, and glance at the sugar-gro0ing 'a countries in Ad bordering on the West Indies alone it to say nothing of the East ...

... essentially a British settlement) and Honduras com- bine with the islandswe hate named to formd a chain of posts round the Caribbean sea. The Bahamas, to the northward of the colonies above enumerated, complete this group. The Whole of this cluster of colonies ...