CUBA

CUBA, an island of North America, situated in the Atlantic ocean, between $74^\{\backslash circ\}$ and $87^\{\backslash circ\}$ of W. long. and between $20^\{\backslash circ\}$ and $23^\{\backslash circ\}$ N. lat. being eight hundred miles and upwards in length from east to west, and generally about seventy miles broad. It lies about fifty miles west of Hispaniola, and seventy-five north of Jamaica.