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Excerpt from Memoir on the Salubrity of the Isle of Pines On presenting to the public my ideas respecting the hygienic and curative properties of the Isle of Pines and its waters, I should decire to give likewise a correct analysis of the latter, as well as a scientific description of their localities. But so laborious and difficult a task would not allow me to arrive as speedily as I wish, to the subject it is now my purpose to present under the point of view which may offer most interest to the public in general and to professional men. I shall therefore restrict myself to giving a summary topographical description of the Island, in the study of which I have been long engaged. I shall close these pages with some memoranda that may contribute towards the commencement of the history of this new district, which merits so much celebrity from its locality, an estimation of its population, and the industrial productions it may hereafter develop. The extent of this Island, according to geographers, is about 180 square leagues; its length, for E. to W., is 21 leagues; its circumference is 70 leagues, the result of the preceding longitudinal measurement, and its breadth, from N. to S., of 13 leagues: its centre is situated in 21 36' 13" N. lat., and 76 12' 13" lon. W. from Cadiz. It is a little more than 30 leagues from Havana, and from the landing of Bataban to the village of Nueva Gerona the distance is eighteen leagues, in a straight line, but far more for vessels, on account of the multitude of keys or islets that surround the Island, on whose shores Columbus arrived the 24th of June, in the year 1494, bestowing on it the name of La Evangelista, perhaps in commemoration of the day of its discovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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