St. Tammany farmer

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the whole Island became independent

In the early part of the present cen

tury; the Bahama islands came def

nitely under British authority about

1783. Between 1810 and 1820 Chili, VQt

ezucla, Argentina and Paraguay

achieved their independence, and dur

ing the next decade (1820-1830) Mexieco,

Ecuador, Gqatemala, Nicaragua, Costa

tica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Urn

guay threw off the Spanish yoke. Flor

ida was ceded by Spain to the United

States in 1821.

After an interval of nearly three

quarters of a century this curtailment

of Spanish colonial power is now aboni

to be completed in the conquest of

Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico an*

even one of the Ladrone islands by the

United States.

Cuba, Hayti and Puerto Rico form a

chain of islands having a general di

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tection, from Cuba, of east by south,

and separating the Caribbean sea

from the Atlantic ocean. Puerto Rico

Is the easternm6st and smallest of

these islands. It is traversed by the

ejghteenth parallel, north latitude;

but, although wholly within the trop

leal zone, the temperature rarely rises

above 97 degrees, owing to the prevail

inagyortheast winds. The latitude is

about the same as that of Bombay and

northern Luzon in the Philippine

4 islands. Puerto Rico's latitude (66de

grees west of Greenwich) brings'the

Island about one degree further east

than the extreme easternmost point

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

St. Tammany farmer. (1898). Covington, La., 1898-09-24. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015387/1898-09-24/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: St. Tammany farmer, 1898-09-24.