Phillipsburg herald

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ida was ceded by Spain to the United

'fctstes in 1821.

After an interval of nearly three

quarters of a century this curtailment

of Spanish colonial power Is now about

.to be completed in the conquest of

'Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Itico and

-even one of the Lad rone islands by the

(United Statce.

Cuba, Hayti and Puerto Rico form a

chain of islands having a general di-

iCM-t

'rection, from Cuba, of east by south,

and separating the Caribbean sea

from the Atlantic ocean. Fuerto Rico

'Is the easternmost and smallest of

:these islands. It is traversed by the

eighteenth parallel, north latitude;

ifcut, although wholly within the trop

ical zone, the temperature linrely rises

above 97 degrees, owing to the prevail

ing northeast winds. The latitude is

elbout the same as that of Bombay and

northern Luzon in the Philippine

Islands. Puerto Hico's latitude (00 de

grees west of Greenwich) brings the

island about one degree further east

than the extreme easternmost point

on the Atlantic coust of the. United

States, i. e., Eastport, Me. The dis

itance from Fuerto liico to Key West

Is about 1,000 miles; from the Cape

Verde islands, oft the const of Africa

.tind almost directly east of Puerto

,'ittco, something over 2,000 miles. Ca-

diz, Spain, h considerably more than

-3,000 miles to the northeast.

Puerto Kico is rectangular in sh.i'pe

tnnd almost three times as long as

broad. East ond west it measures 10S

miles; north and south about 37. Its

area is 3,530 square miles, or about

one-twelfth that of Cuba, a little more

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Phillipsburg herald. (1898). Phillipsburg, Kan., 1898-08-25. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85029677/1898-08-25/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Phillipsburg herald, 1898-08-25.