Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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y Spanish leagues)and thirty-six miles broad, with an area of 3,600 square miles and a population°f 953.243 inhabitants. The capital is San Juan, but the city of Ponce is the acknowl-edged metropolis, the first with a population of 32,048 inhabitants, and the secondnumbering 27,952 souls. The port here referred to is now known as the Bay of Mayagiiez. The islands of St Kitts and Nevis are not mentioned by Dr. Chanca in thisaccount of the voyage, but they must have been seen by the explorers, for anotherwriter of those times speaks of them as San Cristobal and Nuestra Seiiora delas Nieves, respectively. Here ended the Caribbee Islands, the account of whose fierce and savage inhabit-ants was received with eager curiosity by the learned of Europe. Traces of thatsame race of cannibals have more recently been discovered—and in a masterful andphilosophical way described by Alexander von Humboldt—far in the interior of thecountry through which flows the great Orinoco river of Venezuela.
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