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“...cool in the winter months, and there is always a
marked difference between the night and day temperatures.
From November to March the temperature rarely rises above
750 Fahr.. while the thermometer often falls as low as from
50® Fahr. to 6o° Fahr. The lowlands in the north have a super-
abundance of rain, but the south is subject to droughts. Since
the occupation of the island by the United States, sanitation
has undergone marked improvement.
HISTORY. Porto Rico, the Borinquen of the original Arawak
inhabitants, was discovered by Columbus in 1495. In 1508
Juan Ponce de Leon, who had been one of the discoverer’s
companions on his first voyage, having received permission
from Nicolas de Ovanda, Governor of Hispaniola, to explore
the island, founded a settlement at Caparra, near the present
capital. The settlement was ineffectually attacked by Drake
in 1595, " with sixe of file Queene’s shippes, and, twenty-one
other shippes and barkes, containing 2,500 men and boys.”
Sir John Hawkins, who...”
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