| Equinoctial Regions Of America V3 Contributor(s): Humboldt, Alexander Von (Author) |
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ISBN: 1419118072 ISBN-13: 9781419118074 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: The town of the Havannah, properly so called, surrounded by walls, is only 900 toises long and 500 broad; yet more than 44,000 inhabitants, of whom 26,000 are negroes and mulattoes, are crowded together in this narrow space. A population nearly as considerable occupies the two great suburbs of Jesu-Maria and La Salud.* (* Salud signifies Health.) The latter place does not verify the name it bears; the temperature of the air is indeed lower than in the city but the streets might have been larger and better planned. Spanish engineers, who have been waging war for thirty years past with the inhabitants of the suburbs (arrabales), have convinced the government that the houses are too near the fortifications, and that the enemy might establish himself there with impunity. But the government has not courage to demolish the suburbs and disperse a population of 28,000 inhabitants collected in La Salud only. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.29 lbs) 340 pages |
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