Iron County register

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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 about

-to be- completed in the conquest of

Cubat the Philippines, Puerto Rico and

even one of the Ladrone islands by the

TTnited States.

Cuba, Hayti and Puerto Bico form a

chain of islands having a general di-

Scaii

section, from Cuba, of east by south,

-.and separating the Caribbean sea

irom the Atlantic ocean. Puerto Bico

is the easternmost and smallest of

these islands. It is traversed by the

eighteenth parallel, north latitude;

"but, although wholly within the trop

ical zone, the temperature rarely rises

-above 97 degrees, owing to the prevail

ing northeast winds. The latitude is

About the same as that of Bombay and

northern Luzon in the Philippine

islands. Puerto Bico's latitude (66 de-

-grees west of Greenwich) brings the

island about one degree further east

than the extreme easternmost point

on the Atlantic coast of the United

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

tance from Puerto Eico to Key West

is about 1.000 miles; from the Cape

.Terde islands, off the coast of Africa

.and almost directly east of Puerto

Hico, something over 2,000 miles. Ca-

;diz, Spain, is considerably more than

'S.OOO miles to the northeast.

Puerto Eico is rectangular in shape

"broad. East and 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

than half that of the Hawaiian islands

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Iron County register. (1898). Ironton, Iron County, Mo., 1898-08-25. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024283/1898-08-25/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Iron County register, 1898-08-25.