Cuba, the largest of the West India Islands, 700 m. long and from 27 m. to 290 m. in breadth; belonged to Spain, but is now under the protection of the United States; is traversed from E. to W. by a range of mountains wooded to the summit; abounds in forests—ebony, cedar, mahogany, &c.; soil very fertile; exports sugar and tobacco; principal town, Havana.
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,500,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ctesiphon * Cubbit, Sir William