A Physical and Political Geography, with a Short Account of the Botany, Dendrology, Zoology, Ornithology, Etc. of Each Country

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... Guayaquil, Sechura Bay, Bay of Maxillones, Bay de Senora, Port Hay, Port of Coquimbo, Port of Valparaiso, Port of Conception, Port of Valdivia, Gulf of Ancud, Gulf of Penas, Straits of Magellan. On the eastern shores of South America are Straits of Le Maire, Strait of Magellan, Port Desire, Gulf of St. George, Port St. Antonio, Sanborombon-Bay, Bay de Todos or Santos, Camu Bay, Gurupy Bay, Princon Bay. In the Caribbean Sea are Gulf of Maracaybo, Honda Bay, Gulf of Darien, Porto Bello. CAPES AND POINTS. In North America are Barrow, the most northerly, 72 north; Farewell, Chudleigh, Charles, Race, Florida, Cod, Breton, Sable or Tancha. PENINSULAS. The principal ones are Melville Peninsula, to the north of Hudson's Bay; Labrador and Nova Scotia, in Canada; East Florida, in the United States; Yucatan and California, in Mexico. ISLANDS. In the Arctic are Greenland, Iceland, and the group called Georgia, including Bathurst, Cornwallis, Sabine, and Melville; in the latter are Lindon's Gulf and Skeen Bay. In Baffin's Bay are the Islands of Disco, Waygat, and the group called Baffin's Isles. In Hudson's Strait and Bay are Resolution and Charles's Isles, Savage Isles, divided into several groups; Mill Islands, Salisbury and Nottingham Isles, Southampton and Mansfield Islands, and several small isles not inhabited. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence are Newfoundland, Cape Breton; St. John's or Prince Edward's Isle, Anticosti. In the Atlantic are the Bermudas or Sommers' Isles, Long Island. The islands lying between the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea are the Bahama or Lucaya Isles, the Caribbees, sometimes called the Greater and Lesser Antilles. The Bahamas include Bahama, Lucaya, New Providence, and Guanahani, sometimes called San Salvador, or Cat's...