an island of America, situated in the Atlantic ocean, between 76° and 79° of west longitude, and between 17° and 18° odd minutes north latitude, near 5000 miles south-west of England, 100 miles south of the island of Cuba, and 350 miles north of Terra Firma. The island lies east and west, and is about 140 miles long, and 60 broad. The wind sets on the shore almost all the day in every part of the island, and off the shore in the night; it sometimes hails, but the people there never see frost or snow. The produce of the island is chiefly sugar; but there are plantations of coffee, of the cocoa or chocolate tree, of indigo, tobacco, pepper, cotton, woods for dying, and the mahogany and machinell wood, ginger, medicinal drugs and gums. The common diseases of the country are fevers, fluxes, and the dry gripes.