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... the Falkland Islands but control th« commerce that passes round Cape Horn—while Trinidad gives her all she desires in the Caribbean Sea. Hali-| fax at one point, and Bermuda at another, stand out in great force over our own coast from one extremity to the ...
... geographieal position of the coun- tries entitled to claim the benefit of them, we will compare the Gulf of Mexieo and the Caribbean Sea to an irregular semicircle. Near the centre of the line joining its extremities is the island of Jamaica, distant about ...
... consideration. These are, one across the Isthmus from Chagres or Porto Bello to Panama: the second, from Port San Juan, in the Caribbean Sea, across the Lake of Nicaragua, to Realejo, on the Pacific; and a third, from the mouth of the river Coatzacoalcos to ...
... America did not cause him to abandon his original project,—and with wonderful perseverance he sailed westward through the Caribbean Sea, coasted the eastern side of Central America, and searched eagerly for a passage should conduct him to the u Indian land ...
... stream. In the first place it should be observed || that there runs from the shores of Africa, across the Atlantic into the Caribbean sea and Gulf of Mexico, a great equatorial current, an enormous volume of water created the biasing sun of the torrid zone ...
... Sahara, and eagerly purchased by the people ; look at those fine cocoa-nuts, grown on shores of the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and retailed iu penny slices to the humbler inhabitants of the British metropolis. Step into a honse, and there too ...
... eclipse will begin at 10.42.8, a.m., in latitude 11 deg. 19 min., longitude, 67 deg. 50 min. W., near Puerto Cabello, in the Caribbean Sea—the central eclipse moving at first in eastetly rather than in a north easterly direction, crosses the North Atlantic ...
... discovered 10 years ago by American. The island was well known, and had long formed part of tho British possessions in the Caribbean Sea. It was surveyed in 1810 by Captain Hayes, British officer, and again in 1850 by a British officer. In 1856 an American ...
... and resided in Brunswicksteet, West Hartlepool, went to his work the usual time (six o'clock), aboard the screw steamer, Caribbean, which is being fitted out for sea in the Jackson Dock. was missed some time after, and about half-past eight o'clock was ...