Excerpt from The South-West, Vol. 1 of 2 A calm - A breeze on the water - The land of flowers - Juan Ponce de Leon - The fountain of perpetual youth - An irremedia ble loss to single gentlemen - Gulf Strearn - new-provitlenee Cuba - Pan of Matanzas - Blue hills of Cuba - An armed cruiser Cape St. Antonio - Pirates - Enter the Mexican Gull - Molvle A southern inter - A farewell to the North and a welcome to the South - 1 be close of the vo'xage - Balize - Fleet - West lndiaman Portuguese polacre - Lantl ho - 'l'he land Its formation - Pilot or little briet authority - Ligl: t house - Revenue cutter - News papers The meeting of the waters-a singular appearance A morning off the Belize - The tow-boat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.