Cuba Past and Present (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Richard Davey

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ISBN 10 : 1332589235 ISBN 13 : 9781332589234

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Sierra Maestra, is singularly indented and irregular; and by reason of its innumerable tiny bays, capes, peninsulas, shallows, reefs, cays, promontories, and islets, presents, on the map, the appearance of a deep curtain fringe. The surface measurement of the island is fully 35,000 square miles. In other words, it is a litde bigger than Portugal, or somewhat over a fourth the size of Spain. The Sierra Maestra range rises from the coast, out of theO cean, with grand abruptness, immediately opposite the sister island of Jamaica. It here presents much the same stately and varied panorama as may be admired on the Genoese Riviera, and, by a series of irregular terraces, reaches theO jodel Toro, or theS ources of theB ull, where it suddenly drops towards the centre of the chain, whence it sends The island of Cuba lies between the Caribbean Sea on the S., and the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf ofF lorida, and Bahama Channel on the N., being nearly equidistant from the peninsulas of Yucatan andF lorida and the islands of Hayti and Jamaica. It stretches in N. lat from 19 50 to 23 9, and in W. long, from 74 8to 84 158 .T he rainfall at Havana is said to be 9268 inches, or more than double that of the opposite coast ofF lorida. The atmospheric tendencies are less violent than in the other islands. Hurricanes are frequent, but not so terrible as elsewhere in the same zone. However, one of them, in October 1846, destroyed a third of Havana, while hundreds were killed and thousands injured. The north wind blows with more or less strength throughout the entire winter months. In summer, when the sun is at its zenith, torrential rains, lasting for days at a time, are frequent. Hail is rare, but, once or twice in this century, snow has len on the upper plateaus of theS ierra Maestra. According to the proverbial oldest inhabitant, the rainfall has considerably diminished of late yea
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Cuba Past and Present

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332589235
• ISBN 13: 9781332589234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
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