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“...side
it is about 12 J feet, with occasional ranges of 21 feet.
The mean level of the Pacific at the Isthmus has been
found to be about eight inches higher than the mean
level of the Atlantic.
HISTORY. It is believed that the Isthmus of Panama was
first visited in 1499 by Alonso de Ojeda, who established a
colony, which he called Nueva Andalucia, near Cartagena. Two
years later Rodrigo Bastidas coasted along the Spanish Main as
far as what is now Porto Bello, and in 1502 Columbus, coasting
from Almirante Bay, founded the colony of Nombre de Dios
in Porto Bello Bay. The settlement was destroyed by Indians,
but re-established in 1510 by Diego de Nicuesa, Governor of
the Spanish Province of Castilla del Oro, which included the
countries that are now Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
In the same year Martin Fernandez de Enciso, with the sur-
vivors of Nueva Andalucia, founded the colony of Darien.
* Original canal 25 feet deep....”
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“...INDEX
Abaco, 63, 65
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 116,
124, 136, 157, 171, 186,
333-4
Absalon, Baths of, 313
Accompong, 293, 294
Acklin Island, 63
Ackwero, 378
Adventure, 377, 378
“ African Companies,” 36
Agatash, 373
Agouti, the, 7
Akyma, 377
Alarm, H.M.S., 116
Albany, 260
Albemarle, Duke of, 63, 349
Albert, Prince (Duke of York),
130
Albert Victor, Prince, 48, 95,
in, 130, 136, 142, 164
Alfred, Prince. See Edin-
burgh, Duke of
Alleyne, Hon. Forster M., 99
Alleyne, Sir John Gay, 109
Almirante Bay, 418
Amatuk, 389
Ambergris Cay, 393, 396
Amerigo Vespucci, 374
Ancon, 428
Andros, 63, 64, 65
Anegada, 251
Anglican Church, the, 39
Angostura bitters, 115
Anguilla, 201, 233-4
Animal Flower Cave, 111
Anne, Princess, 218
Annotto Bay, 260, 287
Anopheles mosquito, 6
Anstey, Bishop A. H., 94
Antoine, Lake, 164, 166
Antigua, 199-212
— Accommodation in, 202
—- Area, situation and popula-
tion, 199
— Books on, 31
— Climate, 200
—- Communications, 202
— Constitution, 201—2
— Freemasonry, 204
— History, 200-1...”
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