The Spanish West Indies

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Part I. Cuba: Physical, Political, And Industrial

Physical Geography — Position, Figure, Boundaries, Neighboring Lands, Advantages and Disadvantages, Extent, Surface or Area, Coasts, Gulfs, Peninsulas, Capes, Islands, etc., Straits and Channels, Mountains, Yolcanoes, Valleys, Caverns, Sabanas or Plains, Kivers, Waterfalls, Lakes and Lagoons, Oienagas or Swamps, Salt-fields, Harbors, etc., Climate, Diseases, Animals, Vegetation, Minerals, etc., etc Page 7-44

Political and Industrial Geography.— Population, Religion, Territorial Divisions, Government, Laws, Ethnography, Idiom, Character and Customs, Publifi^nstrtiBtion, Manufactures and Arts, Agriculture, Navigation, Commerce, Revenue, Expenditure, Intercommunication, Coat of Arms, Measures, Weights, Currency, Forces, etc 44-70

Adjacent Islands. — Isla de Pinos, etc 71-73

Description op the Jurisdictions. — Capital Towns, Villages, Petty Districts, Communities, Productions, Peculiarities, etc., of each 74-103

Ancient Geography 104-109

History of the Island.— Discovery, Conquest and Colonization, Organization, Civilization, Era of Prosperity, etc 110-117

Statistics of Cuba.— Population of the Island in 1853, Progress of Population, Towns of 1,500 Inhabitants and upward, in 1841, 1846, and 1853; Rural Establishments, Distribution of Land, Chief Agricultural Products in 1852, Staple Exports, Navigation and Commerce, Sugar Exported from 1791 to 1850, Other Exports from 1826 to 1850, Copper Exported from 1841 to 1850, Value of Commerce with Foreign Nations, Commercial Movement, Revenue of the Island from 1826 to 1850. . . 118-127

Appendix 128-131 vi Contents.